Get Hooked on UNEARTH [THE FLOWERS] by Thea Matthews
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2023-01-09

An electrifying letter to family, country, and self, Unearth [The Flowers] is an essential collection, relentless in its journey through stages of grief and healing while celebrating life. Each poem is an anthem for resiliency, a testament to survival, a triumph over the stigmatized terror that pervades the everyday. Thea Matthews's first full-length collection of poetry details a mind, body, and flower at the intersection of the personal and the political.

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Thea Matthews is a poet, author and educator originally from San Francisco, California. She earned her BA in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley; and holds an MFA in creative writing–poetry from New York University. Her poetry has appeared in Southern Indiana Review, the Rumpus, Tahoma Literary Review, Foglifter Journal, The New Republic, Green Mountains Review and others.