Rachel Richardson is the author of two books of poetry, Copperhead (2011) and Hundred-Year Wave (forthcoming, 2016), both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, Slate, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. A recipient of recent NEA and Stegner Fellowships, she currently lives and writes in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Spring 2015
Inside the Body, Everything’s Real: The Poetics of Maternity and Mortality
The new poetry books by Katie Ford and Carrie Fountain are explicitly packaged as books about motherhood.
Summer 2013
Lucille Clifton’s Expansive, Collective “i”
A traditional book review does not open with personal anecdote, but it is difficult to approach Lucille Clifton with any greater remove than this—it feels as if she simply will not allow it.
Fall 2012
Art of Losing: On Raptus by Joanna Klink
Joanna Klink’s Raptus begins with an epigraph from Charles Olson that reads like a preemptive admonishment: “Love the World—and stay inside it.” Yet, from the first lines, Klink’s speaker is practicing letting go.