These poems speak to us with voices borrowed from the pages of novels of Alice Walker, Jean Toomer, and Toni Morrison -- voices that still have more to say, things to discuss. Each struggles beneath a yoke of dreaming, loving, and suffering. These characters converse not just with the reader but also with each other, talking amongst themselves, offering up their secrets and hard-won words of wisdom, an everlasting conversation through which these poems voice a shared human experience.
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Smart, nuanced, lush in their beauty, yet never unaware of beauty's price, the poems in Mule & Pear meditate on what to do with the ghosts of history by which, as if inevitably, we find ourselves now shaped, now cornered, and now inhabited -- each of us, then, an unwitting vessel made to carry the past forward. --Carl Phillips
Griffiths gifts us with deleted scenes, alternate endings, and a VIP pass to wander the sets of some of the greatest literature of our time. The reader won't be able to resist the urge to reread Hurston, Morrison, Larson, et. al. or put this new way of seeing perhaps a new poetry technology down. But what else should we expect from an artist who sees the world through so many mediums? --Frank X Walker
Griffiths gifts us with deleted scenes, alternate endings, and a VIP pass to wander the sets of some of the greatest literature of our time. The reader won't be able to resist the urge to reread Hurston, Morrison, Larson, et. al. or put this new way of seeing perhaps a new poetry technology down. But what else should we expect from an artist who sees the world through so many mediums? --Frank X Walker
About the Author
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is the author of Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books) and The Requited Distance (Sheep Meadow Press). A photographer and painter, her visual work has been published widely in both national and international magazines and journals.
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and a photographer. She received the MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and the MA in English Literature from the University of Delaware. A Cave Canem Fellow, she is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards. Her literary and visual work has appeared in Callaloo, Indiana Review, The New York Times, Comstock Review, Crab Orchard Review, Brilliant Corners, dear camera, Hambone, Mosaic, RATTLE, Puerto Del Sol, The Poetry Society of America, and many others. She is the author of Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books), The Requited Distance (Sheep Meadow Press), and a forthcoming full-length collection of poetry, Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose, Fall 2011). She was recently featured as an emerging poet in the April 2011 issue of O magazine, as part of their first-ever poetry issue. Currently, Griffiths teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York.
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