Fierce, necessary, honest, a burn-it-all-down scorched earth policy to the toxic masculinity of this Age of Terror.” “Banshee is the kind of book every woman I know wishes she'd written. “A wicked, delicious ride towards an ambivalent redemption―angry, hilarious, all too true.” ―Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, and Torch Every page of it glitters with rage and with love. “Sexy and sad, dark and funny, ruthless and kind, this is Rachel DeWoskin’s ferociously feminist masterpiece. Aleksandar Hemon, author of Nowhere Man and The Lazarus Project Someday We Will Fly is the powerful, adventurous story of a teenager who confronts the brutal history with courage, love, and imagination. “Rachel DeWoskin’s storytelling features an extraordinary combination of curiosity and kindness, on top of a belief that everyone can have an impact on the world they find themselves in. affirms the human need for art and beauty in hard times.' An unusual portrait of what war does to families in general and children in particular. ★ 'DeWoskin, who has lived in China, has done meticulous research, but what stands out is her lyrical, sensitive portrayal of families struggling to survive during wartime. A beautifully nuanced exploration of culture and people.' ★ 'DeWoskin explores a rarely depicted topic. DeWoskin is a poet of things, of the image, and of the narratives that attention to image allows. 'A debut of stunning clarity and formal dexterity. Robert Pinsky, author of At the Foundling Hospital

“DeWoskin’s range includes fresh new visions of Chinese language and culture, which lead to new ways of understanding an American life new ways of using rhyme, happily melding sonnets and hip-hop fresh, uncowed understandings of the historic past. a remarkable debut, a veritable smorgasbord to appeal in equal measure to both the poetry finicky and the poem gourmand. 'These story-like poems, accessible to even the finickiest nonreaders of poetry, travel fast and span a lifetime. “DeWoskin’s sophisticated, clever poetry, vacillating between soft and sonic, manages to break into the parts of the human story that so often seem inaccessible, or at least indescribable.”

Blind by Rachel DeWoskin