What We Did To Her Made The Water Rise

To read Meghann Plunkett’s work is to have an eternal internal debate: do I savor each delectable poem, ration out the brutal beauty, swallow this book one delicious pill at a time? Or do I feast on this generous collection in one overwhelming and unstoppable gorge? I cannot tell you how to read this, but I can promise that neither option will disappoint.

These poems, set in a Rhode Island girlhood amongst the deaths of Princess Diana and Jon Benet Ramsey, is an endless reflection on the violence that women inherit across the world, in their communities, and in their very own blood. I paused to write many of the lines down before I realized it was futile, I would never forget them. Quite simply, no one writes like Meghann Plunkett.

– Megan Falley, author of Drive Here and Devastate Me