Black Moss Press - Rishma Dunlop

Winner of the 2003 Emily Dickinson Award, Rishma Dunlop is the author of three books of poetry: The Body of My Garden, Reading Like a Girl, and Metropolis. She is co-editor of Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets and editor of White Ink (forthcoming in 2007). She currently edits Studio, an electronic poetry journal.

Reading Like a Girl

In Reading Like a Girl, award-winning poet Rishma Dunlop blends the autobiographical with the imagined to produce an evocative collection of 21^st-century poetry. From the childhood book that “thumbs her open” to the post-9/11 classroom in which she must somehow bring meaning to “rows of firemen’s boots abandoned,” Dunlop’s brilliant language explores what it means to learn and teach in an increasingly violent and fractured global landscape. An essential book from an uncompromising voice.