Rich Wife

Auteur

Emily Bludworth de Barrios's previous books include Shopping, or The End of Time, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Harvard Review, Copper Nickel, The Poetry Review, and Oxford Poetry. She was raised in Houston, Cairo, and Caracas, and now lives in both Houston, Texas and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

Texte du rabat

"The many roles and performances women negotiate compose the kaleidoscope of perspectives that ricochet throughout this vibrant collection. Exploring time, nostalgia, class, wealth, beauty, feminism, art, homemaking, and much more, these essayistic poems form gorgeous recursive loops. Emily Bludworth de Barrios invites readers to observe, sneer at, celebrate, mourn, dismiss, reflect upon, and reconsider what they think it means to be a woman, and how situations that appear to offer freedom often contain their own prisons"--