Rachel Loden: "Reconstructed Face"

The Poem of the Week is “Reconstructed Face” by Rachel Loden, which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2000 issue (Volume I, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Rachel Loden is the author of four chapbooks of poetry, including The Last Campaign, winner of the Hudson Valley Writers' Center / Slapering Hol Press Prize for Poetry. Her full-length collection of poems, Hotel Imperium, was chosen a winner of the University of Georgia Press’s Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. (Additionally, a review of Hotel Imperium written by H. Palmer Hall appears in Volume I, Number 2 of VPR.) Loden’s work has also been included in the 1995 and 2005 Best American Poetry anthologies, as well as various journals, including Antioch Review, Boulevard, Jacket, New American Writing, and Paris Review.

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