Smother: Poems: Poems Magical Realism lyrical - and a little

lyrical - and a little on the wild side

and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference

and guessing wrong

and it all starts with the masa

The expedition gets off to a harrowing start when its leader--Lorelei's beloved mentor--is murdered in her quarters aboard their ship

Smother: Poems: Poems Magical Realism lyrical - and a littleHow 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