Socially engaged poetry—like Claudia Rankine's Citizen and M. NourbeSe Phillip's Zong!— have proven to have real sales potentialSadly, tragedies like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Katrina are becoming more and more regular, driving interest in different interpretations of environmental catastropheRebecca Dunham is one of our most well-published poets across journals and magazines, she is poised for a break-out book
The eighteenth-century glass armonica, a musical instrument whose sound emits from rotating water-filled vessels, has long held the power to mesmerize with its hauntingly sorrowful tones. Just as its song—which was once thought to induce insanity—wraps itself in and around the mind, Rebecca Dunham probes the depths of human psyche, inhabiting the voices of historical female “hysterics” and inciting in readers a tranquil unease. These are poems spoken through...
