Carmen Gimenez Smith
CARMEN GIMÈNEZ SMITH is the author of a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds (University of Arizona, 2010), three poetry collections-Goodbye, Flicker (University of Massachusetts, 2012), The City She Was (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011), and Odalisque in Pieces (University of Arizona, 2009, and has also co-edited a fiction anthology, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (Penguin, 2010). She teaches in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University and Ashland University. She lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Maternity Mythos
By Carmen Giménez SmithIn the past few years, many women writers, myself included, have written books about the ambivalence or the disjuncture of becoming a mother—perhaps a literary tradition hearkening back to Sappho’s ministrations to her students.
Emptiness Untampered
By Carmen Giménez SmithAurelie Sheehan’s Jewelry Box catalogs, in part, the ephemeral treasures associated with love. The book begins its investigation with the eponymous prefatory story about a mother who shows her young daughter the rings and pins she treasures.
Poetry by Carmen Gimenez Smith
By Carmen Gimenez Smith
