Throughout BLUD], McKibbens breathes brilliant life into language, forging lush, rhythmic poems that are both fiercely urgent and tightly controlled, dark and flickering with fairy-tale-like magic. . . . Stunning, unflinching, fearless.―Booklist Starred Review Chicana poet, activist, and witchy folk hero of the disenfranchised. . . . McKibbens] creates these spaces of witness with her feral and boundary-pushing poems that speak unflinchingly of topics often swept under the rug: rape, domestic violence, body shaming, mental illness, prejudice.--Ploughshares McKibbens, a pioneer in the art of performance poetry, presents her audience with] selfless honesty.--The Rumpus Rachel McKibbens . . . reminds us why poetry as testimony is so necessary. --Poetry Foundation McKibbens's blud is a collection of dark, rhythmic poems interested in the ways in which inherited things--bloodlines, mental illnesses, trauma--affect their inheritors. Reveling in form and sound, McKibbens's writing takes back