Rebecca Farivar / American Lit

  Rebecca Farivar is a poet and California native currently living in Bonn, Germany. Correct Animal, her first full-length collection of poems, will be published in July 2011 by Octopus Books. She holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary’s College of California and a BA from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. The Awakening He disrupts you—you are a very bad mother—and moves you to a mood. You did sweat beyond skin. You did swim toward the tear.    *