{"product_id":"blud-9781556595240","title":"Blud","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"―\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McKibbens, a pioneer in the art of performance poetry, presents her audience  with] selfless honesty.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rachel McKibbens . . . reminds us why poetry as testimony is so necessary.\" --Poetry Foundation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcKibbens's \u003cem\u003eblud\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"untitled (lost love)\": \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo my daughters I need to say: \u003cbr\u003e Go with the one who loves you biblically.\u003cbr\u003eThe one whose love lifts its head to you\u003cbr\u003edespite its broken neck. Whose body\u003cbr\u003ebursts sixteen arms electric\u003cbr\u003eto carry you, gentle the way\u003cbr\u003eold grief is gentle.\u003cbr\u003eLove the love that is messy\u003cbr\u003ein all its too much . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel McKibbens\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556595240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2017 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rachel McKibbens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659691290780,"sku":"9781556595240","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1754853d-be64-44b4-bc53-78ce5ade45aa.jpg?v=1603895285","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blud-9781556595240","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}