About Radha Marcum
Radha Marcum is the author of Bloodline, winner of the 2018 New Mexico–Arizona Book Award in Poetry. Marcum teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and is the founder of Poet to Poet. Her work appears in journals such as North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Pleiades, and Poetry Northwest. She lives in Colorado.
Praise for Pine Soot Tendon Bone
Say we put together an American time capsule and put it in the blessed ground. Say we included Radha Marcum’s new poems. Say someone—born to a time beyond our current and colossal problems—unearths the capsule and reads the collection. That person would feel climate chaos, mass shootings, and a pandemic that’s gone on too long—not as abstractions, but like their own slick viscera. They’d understand, then, why future generations live at all: because these poems did the necessary and astonishing work of turning us away from divisions, distractions, denial, and doing for doing’s sake. Of reattaching our flailing umbilici to the natural world. Marcum reminds us, in details that will live in our skin and dreams forever, that attention and embodiment are central to our survival. That when we say yes to the grief of now, we say yes to every soaring hawk, every fire-scarred ponderosa, and to each other. —Amy Irvine, author of Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
In her remarkable second collection of poems, Pine Soot Tendon Bone, Radha Marcum writes unflinchingly and with a rare synthesis of lyric and scientific intelligence. A close-range witness to the ravages of Boulder’s wildfires and the tragedy of mass random shootings in her community, Marcum is sensitive in equal measure to the beauties, griefs, and depredations of our era. Like the chickadees in “Cadenzas,” her poems “sing harmonies / to complicate your discontent” as they investigate just what it is to exist with consciousness now. Charged, luminous, and hard-won, these poems are indispensable. —Carol Moldaw, author of Beauty Refracted
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