Advance praise for

Because the bullet arrives

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

About the author

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.