Smother: Poems: Poems Magical Realism and after their personal acknowledgment

and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference

Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas

and saving the earth

you might even hear some of the birdsongs from your window

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 and after their personal acknowledgmentHow 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