The Music of Her Rivers - Poems

The Music of Her Rivers pays homage to the rivers that taught the poet--the Rio Grande and the Chicago and Illinois Rivers. Sharp-eyed and empathetic, Golden serves as a witness, documenting place, history, and people, especially those left voiceless due to violence or discrimination--from the refugee border crossers of the Rio Grande to the Irish immigrants and former slaves struggling to build lives in Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each poem captures the enduring challenges of Native peoples, laborers, naturalists, and immigrants through its haunting and consuming verse. Throughout the collection the nuanced representation of the landscape allows the rivers to become witnesses and actors themselves.

About the author

Renny Golden is an activist and award-winning author. Her book Blood Desert: Witnesses, 1820-1880 (UNM Press) won the WILLA Literary Award for poetry in 2011, was named a Southwest Notable Book of the Year in 2012, and was a finalist for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award.

Product details

• Authors: Renny Golden
• Publisher: University Of New Mexico Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2019
• EAN: 9780826360779
• ISBN: 978-0-8263-6077-9
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Amerika, Poetry, POETRY / American / General