blud

"Throughout [BLUD], McKibbens breathes brilliant life into language, forging lush, rhythmic poems that are both fiercely urgent and tightly controlled, dark and flickering with fairy-tale-like magic. . . . Stunning, unflinching, fearless."―Booklist Starred Review "Chicana poet, activist, and witchy folk hero of the disenfranchised. . . . [McKibbens] creates these spaces of witness with her feral and boundary-pushing poems that speak unflinchingly of topics often swept under the rug: rape, domestic violence, body shaming, mental illness, prejudice."-Ploughshares "McKibbens, a pioneer in the art of performance poetry, presents her audience [with] selfless honesty."-The Rumpus "Rachel McKibbens . . . reminds us why poetry as testimony is so necessary." -Poetry Foundation McKibbens's blud is a collection of dark, rhythmic poems interested in the ways in which inherited things-bloodlines, mental illnesses, trauma-affect their