Down to the Bone

"Amy Wray Irish is a fresh voice echoing Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Sharon Olds."

-Michael J. Henry, Executive Director of Colorado's Lighthouse Writers Workshop, author of No Stranger Than My Own and Active Gods

In Down to the Bone, poet Amy Wray Irish wields visceral language to strip away the false narratives women are forced to wear. Irish roots out our strength-the bones we can't see but hold us together.

After shedding our dead weight, Down to the Bone inspires women to rise up agai...