Uterotopia: Poems

by Rachel Galvin

From the author of Elevated Threat Level , a daring and poignant collection of new poems. With lyric intensity, wordplay, and dark humor, Uterotopia explores sexism and aging, fertility and mortality, the bystander effect, and violence against women on an intimate and national level. In poems that converse with writers including César Vallejo, Kim Hyesoon, and W.H. Auden, urban legends and folk rituals interweave with facts, anecdotes, and news items.

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

Published January 3, 2023

Reviews

[Angie]

Rachel Galvin’s feminist poetry collection, “Uterotopia,” outlines the lives of women and individuals with active uteruses who are surrounded by the societal pressures and anatomical challenges of reproduction and its effects. There is a dark whimsicality in Galvin’s poems. They embody death and the decaying along with the longing for parenthood.

Check out my book review for Newcity Lit here:
https://lit.newcity.com/2023/01/26/a-...

[Sarah Spaulding Avento]

3.75

Interesting and poignant. Some of her forms with the subject matter were really cool, but parts still felt a bit broad or unconnected. Formally not my favorite, but still good.
Favorites: “One Sugar or Two”
“Well No One Ever Said Breeding Was Easy”
“Information Overload”
“Tender Commodities”
“Empty Rooms”
“Kaddish for an Unborn Child”

[Jillian Troth]

One of my new favorite poets!

[Venneh]

Good meditation on grief that I was really kind of scared was going to swerve terf but instead recognizes the range of female experience. Also - heh, good burning bush pun with the cover.