Minnesota Public Radio News Recommends Three Poetry Collections

At Minnesota Public Radio News, Kerri Miller names three poetry collections her "must-reads" of this year: Claudia Rankine’s Just Us, Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Seeing the Body, and Nikki Giovanni’s Make Me Rain. Regarding Griffiths's book, Miller writes: "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." Further: 

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.”

Finally, if you missed my Talking Volumes interview with Claudia Rankine this fall, spend an hour over the holidays with this remarkable thinker and poet.

Her new book, “Just Us: An American Conversation” is deeply personal and refreshingly political, without being polemical. 

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