Two-time poetry Fellow Robin Beth Schaer (’07 + ’12) is already receiving accolades and stunning reviews for her first collection of poetry, Shipbreaking, published this month by Anhinga Press.
In an August 1st review in The Rumpus, Julie Marie Wade wrote: Some poets play the spoons, but Schaer plays the knives. Her words are not so much written as carved, her lines not so much offerings as incisions. As a consequence, whatever this speaker tells me—”Even coral must dream of cobwebs,” “Without grief, the gun is artifact, “A javelin anchors the air/ between us”—I’ll believe.
“Shipbreaking is a book about being saved while recognizing loss … If we trust our poets enough, we allow them to cause wounds and then apply the salves.” – The Millions Most Anticipated Book Preview