Burch, Claire

In addition to her writing Claire Burch has spent the last twenty-five years doing documentary films about Bay Area homeless street people (or street survivors as she calls them), although little of this work is referred to in this new group of poems. She does, though, describe how ?all is not right on my street? and ?baby needs a new pair of governments?. Her blindness has not stopped her filming. She refers to herself as probably the only legally blind cameraman in California and because she can see silhouettes still finds it possible to frame her subjects in the camera and invoke memory as