Day: July 29, 2014

Body Sonnets
I. Credibility
from Rachel Dilworth’s The Wild Rose Asylum

I’ve been reading a metric shit ton of poetry this month. July was Camp NaNoWriMo, and this time around I elected to write a poem a day. So I’ve been reading and writing and writing and reading. Rachel Dilworth’s The Wild Rose Asylum is absolutely heartbreaking. It’s about the Magdalen laundries in Ireland. Dilworth received a Fulbright scholarship to travel to Ireland, where she conducted research for the book.

I also read Nicole Cooley’s The Afflicted Girls, about the Salem Witch Trials. It, too, is heartbreaking.