Griffiths, Rachel Eliza 2015
Another time after she left
I saw a headless woman
hurrying after her like a jaguar.
– Rachel Eliza Griffiths, “Discrepancies Regarding My Mother’s Departure”
Read this interview with Rachel Eliza Griffiths from The Rumpus:
The Rumpus Interview with Rachel Eliza Griffiths
The Rumpus Interview with Rachel Eliza Griffiths Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s is one of the most affecting books of poetry I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. Each poem works in conversation with an important work of black literature but each poem is also evocative enough to stand on its own.
I pick you up
& you are a child made of longing
clasped to my neck. Iridescent,
lovely, your inestimable tantrums,
I carry you back & forth
from the famine in your mind.
– Rachel Eliza Griffiths, “Dear America”
Watch Rachel Eliza Griffiths read some of her work:
A Four Way Books Salon: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
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