Carmen Giménez Smith Poems

Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of six collections of poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her books include Goodbye Flicker and a memoir titled Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else.

Bleeding Heart

by Carmen Giménez Smith

Bleeding Heart by Carmen Giménez Smith transforms emotional pain into something that fills the poem, a physical bleeding spreading through

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