These are poems of lyric beauty and also of masterful storytelling. Golden is able to compress a novel's worth of living into a few crystal-clear lines.--Chloe Martinez, RHINO Poetry
Description
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.
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Reviews
Golden provides a fuller, more nuanced history of various social issues with craft and concern laced together by the tributaries that wind through Mexico and Chicago.--Newcity Lit
Golden provides a fuller, more nuanced history of various social issues with craft and concern laced together by the tributaries that wind through Mexico and Chicago.--Newcity Lit
[A] gathering of radiant poems about lives on the hard edge of America.--Third Coast Review
