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Her third collection, Meltwater, is forthcoming. Her second collection, Redmouth, was published with Tinderbox Editions in 2019. My name is Molly Sutton Kiefer, though I am not the only one to represent Tinderbox Editions. Yes, darkness razors across these poems, but what comes out of the experience of reading is beauty. Tinderbox Editions is a printing, publishing organization in Frontenac, MN, which was founded in 2015 and has an unknown amount of revenue and number of employees. Her debut full-length collection, Wilder (Milkweed Editions), won the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, the Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2019 Minnesota Book Award.

But how does the poet make grief so beautiful? Who knew the language of grief could be stricken itself with the language of beauty? Here the deer have disappeared but when the speaker closes her eyes, she 'can see them / licking the coats of their fawns, anchoring / their spots to their fur to their bodies to the forest floor.' There's simply no doubt that Wahmanholm is a poet because language is the center of all of her work, whether it is describing a decayed world where 'mountains have unraveled into sand' to the stripping away and lifting out of language in the equally stunning erasures sprinkled throughout this book.

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She follows the fence that is the skin and bodythe gendered, racialized selfto a place she, in her grief and rage, trusts it might lead: I awake to my life, laid out plainly. A 2020 McKnight Writing Fellow, her poems are forthcoming from New Poetry from the Midwest 2019, Descant, Image, Copper Nickel, and Grist, and have recently appeared on Poetry Daily and The Academy of American PoetsвЂ™ Poem-a-Day series. 'A FENCE MUST LEAD SOMEWHERE, Caroline Cabrera insists. Claire Wahmanholm's book REDMOUTH is grief-stricken. Claire WahmanholmвЂ™s most recent collection is Redmouth (Tinderbox Editions, 2019). Tinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever.