Rachel Abramowitz is the author of The Birthday of the Dead, winner of the 2021 Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize from Conduit Books, the chapbooks The Puzzle Monster (Factory Hollow Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and Gut Lust (Burnside Review Press, 2020), winner of the 2019 Burnside Review Press Book Contest.
Poetry
Summer 2023
Nocturne
The Kenyon Review · Nocturne I have stayed as long as I could, as your little thief, as your garbage king, your bread slasher, that old evil. I have gathered […]
Sept/Oct 2018
The Orange
To look or to listen? Or to touch, to offer the soft-downed small of the back, like a canvas, to the blood-rush of both gentleness and pain, the same blood […]
Spring 2013
The Dangers of Enchantment: Heather Christle’s The Trees The Trees
The Trees The Trees, Heather Christle’s widely lauded, Believer Poetry Award-winning second book of poems, will bother you. Its fragmented lines will visit you in dreams; when you wake they will pull you back into a discombobulated psychic somnambulance.
Winter 2012
The Importance of Being Difficult: Charles Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficult Poems
Charles Bernstein is no stranger to the “difficult” poem: as one of the co-creators of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry in the 1970s, Bernstein has made a career of discombobulation.