Rich Wife

"The many roles and performances women negotiate compose the kaleidoscope of perspectives that ricochet throughout this vibrant collection. Exploring time, nostalgia, class, wealth, beauty, feminism, art, homemaking, and much more, these essayistic poems form gorgeous recursive loops. Emily Bludworth de Barrios invites readers to observe, sneer at, celebrate, mourn, dismiss, reflect upon, and reconsider what they think it means to be a woman, and how situations that appear to offer freedom often contain their own prisons"--