Caroline Rash: Because the Bullet Arrives, in Conversation with Ron Rash

Join us for a special event with Caroline Rash on Tuesday, July 15th at 6 pm as she presents her new collection of poetry Because the Bullet Arrives. Caroline will be in conversation with her father Ron Rash discussing her work and she will be signing books at the end of the event.

Get at 10% discount on the book when you RSVP and present it at the bookshop register.

The French poet Jean Follain once said, “Guns are the jewelry of men.” In Caroline Rash’s poems guns can serve as talismans, for both men and women, of desire and love. Her poems have a richness of close attention to detail. Some are vivid speculations about mortality, and affection for those no longer with us. Others celebrate contact with water, contact of body to body, body in contact with the larger world. In Rash’s work we hear voices of both struggle and achievement, inspired by close family bonds, and anticipation of new life.

—Robert Morgan, Author of Dark Energy

Caroline Rash is a writer, educator, and quilter. Her work has been published in North Carolina Literary Review, Fine Print, Connotation Press, and Decider. She serves as associate editor at the South Carolina Review and holds an MFA from Rutgers-Camden. Her creative nonfiction was selected as a finalist for the 2021 Alex Albright Prize. Find her at CarolineRash.com.

Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; five collections of poems; and seven collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Nothing Gold Can Stay, a New York Times bestseller, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Three times the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, his books have been translated into seventeen languages. He teaches at Western Carolina University.

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