Smother: Poems (Paperback) Or-Wa On June 12

On June 12

coming right out and asking the tough questions about race and racism that our culture has made white people experts at dancing around

But a relationship with Jake means risking her face in tabloids

They haven't spoken since

Smother: Poems (Paperback) Or-Wa On June 12How 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