Understory: A Poem

by Rebecca Rotert

Understory is an epic, a poem that historically follows the deeds and misdeeds of heroes. The hero at the heart of this contemporary epic explores the dominions of her native terrain, the passions and battles of the body, and of her own literal and figurative understory...the singular network of lives, desires, and liberations that sustain the larger story of a life.

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, Paperback

Published January 3, 2020

About the author

Rebecca Rotert received her MA from Hollins College in Virginia where she was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets prize. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Santa Clara Review, America magazine, Hospital Drive Journal of Literature and Humanities, Temenos journal, Outside-In magazine, Health Progress and the New York Times. Her essay, Proteus on the Vasa was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Last Night at the Blue Angel is her first novel.

Since its publication, Last Night at the Blue Angel has won an award from the Friends of American Writers, was short-listed for the VCU Cabell Award, long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award. In the fall of 2015, it won the Nebraska Book Award.