Poem of the Week | October 02, 2017
Andrea Read: “How Rebecca Got Lifted Up”
This week, we are excited to present a new poem by Andrea Read. Read’s poems have appeared most recently or are forthcoming in FIELD, Copper Nickel, Barrow Street, Tupelo Quarterly, and Parabola. A recipient of a National Resource Fellowship and a Tinker Foundation grant, Andrea received her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago and an MFA from Lesley University. Andrea and her family divide their time between Somerville, Massachusetts and mid-coast Maine, where they are establishing a hops farm.
How Rebecca Got Lifted Up
Author’s Note:
This poem is one of a series that investigates remorse as a physical, emotional, and spiritual experience. Many of the poems deal with the peculiar violence language is capable of inflicting, its power to heal, and how (or whether) we reckon with the immense damage we cause one another. War and its aftermath are, for me, a way to express the intermingling of pain, loss, and beauty in our most intimate relationships.
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