Three recommendations to add a bit more poetry to your collection
“My second must-read is a collection by poet and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths called “Seeing the Body.”
The poems radiate with the power of witness and a long grief in the wake of her mother’s death. Griffiths began writing and photographing in 2015 following the death of her mother in 2014.
Listen to what she told Publishers Weekly about those long years: “Losing my mother forced me into the most difficult transformation of my life. Each poem drew me further into something I didn’t want to accept, which was that my mother was dead.”