Schwartz\'s second collection of poems examines the legacy of trauma and abuse among a family of women--and the ability of women and girls to survive. --from" Everything is Illegal," Nightbloom & Cenote.
Every tough, gnarled thing holding / Its own life in a fist of vitality is illegal.
Call all thriving things illegal: / The magnolia tree, its roots, / That vast network of veins that feeds itself / And others like it in dry soil, / Pushes space through concrete sidewalks / To breathe ...
At times searing in grief, in other moments patient and willing to accept, Schwartz questions the truth behind any survival, what it looks like for a girl to emerge from the bottom of any cenote, or a city\'s residents to move forward after a hundred-year flood.
Schwartz\'s second collection of poems examines the legacy of trauma and abuse among a family of women--and the ability of women and girls to survive
