University of Wisconsin Press, 2025 • Winner of the Four Lakes Prize • ISBN 9780299351649
Reception
“Enticing... a beautiful and strange book redolent with its own symbology.”
— Elizabeth Sylvia, Plume
“t is a complex, psychical dissection of the role of the so-called rich wife and the expectations put upon women by themselves and others.”
— Bianca Stone
“…a slow unfold and unfurl, as her narrative lyrics accumulate, surrounding and encompassing her subject matter…”
— rob mclennan
"Its confident, self-complicating long poems drive headlong toward an ever-more-nuanced and layered understanding of the inescapable traps of womanhood and motherhood."
— Wayne Miller
“Bludworth de Barrios's poetics feels like an atonal orchestral work.”
— Kent Shaw, The Kalliope
“I was captivated by the unapologetically long lines, the writer's intellect, and the combination of domestic/unpoetic scenes with facts about the lives of Mary Delany, Kate Chopin and Nefertiti.”
— Rebekah Denison Hewitt, The Diagram
“A flair for kitsch is only one of the tools in this poet's arsenal. A wicked sense of humor is another. A third is a talent for astute literary and mythological analysis.”
— Amanda Holmes Duffy, Washington Independent Review of Books
Selections
bath magg
Copper Nickel
Iterant
The Poetry Review
Prelude
Visual Companion
Explore paintings, photographs, and historical objects referenced throughout Rich Wife.