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What do other writers have to say about “Matters of Record”?
Jill McCorkle: Matters of Record is a powerful and moving collection that gives voice to women executed for their crimes. And then, with the same masterful skill, Megan Roberts gives voice to victim, jury, system. As a whole it stands as a chorus of life and death–an ebb and flow of justice and injustice–and within each individual poem, there is the vividness and complexity of a whole life–a specific place and time and series of events that leads to that final moment, a human heart weighed out in last meals and locks of hair. Beautifully crafted, compassionate and honest. Megan Roberts is a gifted writer.
Dorianne Laux: Megan Roberts brings dead women, executed women, back to life, giving them voices and gestures, earrings and memories, children and last suppers. This is a murderous world not often seen, let alone in poetry, and the violence that lurks silently behind these poems is deafening, and utterly dark.
Where can I get a copy? Advanced sales have begun! The book officially comes out this July, but it would be wonderful if you went ahead and reserved your copy.
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