Smother: Poems: Poems Magical Realism Una crónica familiar que abarca

Una crónica familiar que abarca tres generaciones y dos países

"--Naomi Novik

the patient return of warmer days

Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and

and it all starts with the masa

Smother: Poems: Poems Magical Realism Una crónica familiar que abarcaHow should we raise our children in, and for, a world that is burning? Rachel Richardson's third collection, Smother, interrogates this impossible question. The poet, raising young daughters and grieving the death of a mother friend, documents a string of record breaking fires across the California landscape and the rage, sorrow, and detachment that follow amidst the pervasive smoke. Environmental and physical predation on the earth and on the female