Description
In this darkly luminous collection, Rachel McKibbens turns inherited pain into living language, exploring how bloodlines, trauma, and mental illness echo through the people who carry them. With fiercely urgent, tightly controlled poems—rich in rhythm, sound, and a flicker of fairy-tale magic—she makes space for witness, refusing to look away from rape, domestic violence, body shaming, and prejudice. Blending the feral immediacy of performance poetry with a witchy, boundary-pushing sensibility, McKibbens interrogates what gets passed down and what can be reclaimed. Ultimately, blud is both a reckoning and a reaching: a search for tenderness and survival beneath the bruising, and a testament to the necessity of poetry as truth.
Available Editions
paperback
Copper Canyon Press
Published May 1, 2018
110 pages
ISBN: 9781619321786
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Details
First Published
2018
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for blud by Rachel McKibbens.