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Blud
Contributor(s): McKibbens, Rachel (Author)

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ISBN: 1556595247     ISBN-13: 9781556595240
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: October 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Lgbt
- Poetry | American - Hispanic American
- Poetry | Women Authors
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2017022743
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.40 lbs) 88 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Gay
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/18/2017
Booklist 10/01/2017 pg. 14
Shelf Awareness 11/07/2017
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Throughout BLUD], McKibbens breathes brilliant life into language, forging lush, rhythmic poems that are both fiercely urgent and tightly controlled, dark and flickering with fairy-tale-like magic. . . . Stunning, unflinching, fearless.―Booklist Starred Review

Chicana poet, activist, and witchy folk hero of the disenfranchised. . . . McKibbens] creates these spaces of witness with her feral and boundary-pushing poems that speak unflinchingly of topics often swept under the rug: rape, domestic violence, body shaming, mental illness, prejudice.--Ploughshares

McKibbens, a pioneer in the art of performance poetry, presents her audience with] selfless honesty.--The Rumpus

Rachel McKibbens . . . reminds us why poetry as testimony is so necessary. --Poetry Foundation

McKibbens's blud is a collection of dark, rhythmic poems interested in the ways in which inherited things--bloodlines, mental illnesses, trauma--affect their inheritors. Reveling in form and sound, McKibbens's writing takes back control, undaunted by the idea of sinking its teeth into the ugliest moments of life, while still believing--and looking for--the good underneath all the bruising.

From untitled (lost love):

To my daughters I need to say:
Go with the one who loves you biblically.
The one whose love lifts its head to you
despite its broken neck. Whose body
bursts sixteen arms electric
to carry you, gentle the way
old grief is gentle.
Love the love that is messy
in all its too much . . .

Rachel McKibbens is a poet, activist, playwright, essayist, and two-time New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow. She is the author of four books and founder of The Pink Door, an annual writing retreat open exclusively to women of color. She lives in Rochester, New York.

 
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