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Rachel Eliza Griffiths on Mule & Pear

Rachel Eliza Griffiths: Poetic Inspirations Behind "Mule & Pear"

“I pulled down a book by Gayl Jones, Eva’s Man, and I sat down and didn’t get back up until I finished it—and I felt so haunted,” says Rachel Eliza Griffiths about what inspired her third poetry collection, Mule & Pear (New Issues Press, 2011), in this conversation at the 2013 Poets Forum for the Academy of American Poets.

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Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Mule & Pear
New Issues Poetry & Prose
2011
Poets Forum
Academy of American Poets
2013

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