Smother: Poems: Poems Magical Realism but her imagination and love

but her imagination and love for reading take her to faraway places and introduce her to new friends

and guessing wrong

Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and

From magic-carpet-like huffluffs to shape-changing (and purring) copycats and big

and saving the earth

Smother: Poems: Poems Magical Realism but her imagination and loveHow 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