Smother: Poems: Poems Magical Realism Switching between the perspectives of

Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas

The binding trauma of Holocaust memory grows ever-more attenuated

you might even hear some of the birdsongs from your window

The happily married Mr

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Smother: Poems: Poems Magical Realism Switching between the perspectives ofHow 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