Rebecca Dunham

REBECCA DUNHAM has created a collection of something very special. You might call them ecological-journalistic-memorial poetry. She tackles two devastating natural disasters in recent memory - the Category 5 Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting catastrophic oil spill. The cover of this collection is a photo, taken by environmental photojournalist Carrie Vonderhaar, of oil from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The poet spent time with survivors and family members of those who lost their lives in the disasters, read governmental reports, and visited the locations herself. Combining all of these sources, she is able to create some mesmerizing and heatbreaking works.… (más)