If I were a country/and you my journalist/I would have shot you/down a street/and left you to bleed. Fierce and unflinching, Rochelle Potkar's poetry springs from the deeply personal and ripples out to the world, capturing lover's whispers and reverberations of explosions with equal ease. Vividly depicting love, grief, anger, defiance, these poems glimmer like coins beneath the water surface, tethered with the weight of wishes clinging to them. As sensuous as it is articulate, Coins in Rivers is a deep meditation on womanhood, motherhood, and citizenship. The legendary p Read More..