Alight: Flights of Prose

by Rachael Peckham

“In Alight, Rachael Peckham looks with clear eyes directly at the grief, loss, and haunting questions surrounding the plane crash that killed her grandfather and two uncles before she was born. She handles her volatile material tenderly, yet matter-of-factly.* Through a collage of prose poems, witness testimonials, excerpts of letters, conversations, vignettes, scenes from her own flying lesson, and the white space between it all, the story shifts and builds like fast-moving clouds in the summer sky. I am in awe of the mind that constructed this book. And yet, overwhelmingly, as I read Alight, I felt it–in my chest, in my lungs, in my eyes as they stung and I blinked away tears. With keen perception and curiosity informed by the ache of reflected grief that inhabited her childhood, Peckham gently guides the reader into the wreckage and back out again.” ~ Kathleen McGookey, author of the prose poem collections Instructions for My Imposter, Heart in a Jar, and Stay

118 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lovely collection of prose from an incredible writer