RACHEL RICHARDSON has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. Her first book, Copperhead, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and her poetry and prose have appeared in Guernica, New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, the Poetry Foundation website, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A contributing editor at Memorious, she lives with her family in Greensboro, North Carolina.
"Hundred-Year Wave is a gorgeous book that borrows its vast subject
matter from new parenthood, marriage, the ocean, whales, and Sylvia
Plath. The poet knits each poem with such care--stitch by stitch,
loop by loop, word after word into an effortless collection of
quiet yet haunting music lush with texture and feeling. Her gifts
are wide and deep like the ocean, as she shows us that "we are not
lost / in the vast expanse of lostness.""--Victoria Chang (1/1/2015
12:00:00 AM)
"Immaculately yet organically structured, Rachel Richardson's
Hundred-Year Wave dives and sails and swims from the cosmic to the
personal, accounting for the epical, sublime and tragic, and the
lyrical, hymnal and elegiac. The sea is the book's domain and the
source of energy, its grief and solace; and in wave after wave of
remarkable poetry bearing wit and grit and tenderness, it heralds
the arrival of a poet of great poise and prodigious lyrical
gifts.--Khaled Mattawa (1/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)
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