BOOKS BY HANNAH BURR
Field Guide to Ambiguity (Fifth Avenue Press) 2024
Contemporary Prayers to Whatever Works (Simon & Schuster). 2021
the Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere (Fifth Avenue Press). 2019
Help me [ ], do the thing. 2016
Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works] 2013
Field Guide to AmbiguityThis book, Hannah Burr's fifth and newest book project, arrived in January 2024. Copies are available here.
Field Guide to Ambiguity is a book for learning to feel situated when you don’t know where you are. It’s a way to pause and orient when you are in life’s washing machine, without claiming to have your answers for you. It’s part journaling tool, part oracle and part artists' book, full of open-ended questions to help you relate freshly to what’s immediately around you. Burr pairs the structure of a scientific field guide with dynamic reflection and artwork to explore our human relationship to uncertainty—from earth-shaking life events to the intimate, daily mystery of opening your eyes in the morning. “It’s a tender situation, this openness, and you’re it.” “In the end, you yourself are ambiguity’s only bearings. You are the orienting principle of any given situation.“ Publisher: Fifth Avenue Press Length:200 Pages 8 x 5" ISBN: 978-1-956697-25-4 |
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The 2021 volume of Contemporary PrayersThe third in her prayer book series, this book is 208 pages of 80 new, prayers to visual abstraction in brush and ink, within each prayer. Published by Simon & Schuster.
This book expands themes of the first two non-religious prayer books by Burr, and responds to our wild and disorienting times with chapters to navigate uncertainty and confusion with presence. Publisher: Simon & Schuster's Tiller Press (2021) Length: 208 pages 6.5 x 5.5” ISBN13: 9781982154677 |
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Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works] 2013 edition Burr's first book from 2013 is an artist's book of blunt prayers to nothing-in-particular. Burr uses these prayers to relax and enjoy seismic shifts in her life. They’ve helped her remember, as she forgets repeatedly, that there are larger forces at work, gravity for example, of which she is a part. These prayers help her accept and tap into whatever that is. Purchase this book.
ISBN: 978-0-9889166-0-9 6.5 x 5.5” 128 PAGES $20 |
Help me [ ], do the thing.Burr’s second book expands audiences from the first, bridging generation, gender and religious belief. Prized by artists, designers, philosophers, kids, teens, seekers, secularists, and color savorers. Cover design by ICA Boston’s Creative Director, L.Simon Hayes. Focus on creative boldness through wordless visual petitions. Purchase through here. Arrived 2016. ISBN: 978-0-9889166-1-6 6.5 x 5.5” 128 PAGES $20 |
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PRAISE FOR 'ELEMENTS' “Gorgeous, thought provoking, practical, mystical” – J. Margo “The Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere helps humanize science, at a deep level, and at a really important time” – K. Berger “Hannah Burr has mapped out, in color and language, the appearance of the elements in the mundane stuff of our lives. Enjoy this study of interconnectedness.“ – L. Thomas |
P R A I S E F O R B U R R ' S B O O K S :
Very sweet, very open, very alive, honest, real. Thank you for holding space for expression of human experience in relation to ^*)(“”” |
“I go through periods of carrying Whatever Works around in my jacket pocket as if it were an illuminated manuscript and |
"I love the second one as much as the first!" |
"A book about reframing, asking for help, remembering, and letting go." |
"I've been turning to your books a lot lately for words of whatever I need at that moment. So grateful they are in the world." |
"Every prayer is completely appropriate for me right now. Honestly that makes me laugh and feel a little less alone and lost." |
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