Author name: Radha Marcum

Book title: Bloodline

Type of book: Poetry

Summary: "Bloodline" explores the birth of the atomic era through lenses of women and land. The book centers on the difficult family history of the work of Marcum's grandfather building the first atomic bombs in Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II — and how that both brave and heavy legacy has affected her family. The poems traverse lands of the West where remnants of past cultures and threads of current events intersect. "Bloodline" is as much about the American West, a collection of poems shaped by geology and ecology, as it is about the Manhattan Project.

Author bio: A poet with a keen interest in landscapes of the physical world and of the mind, Marcum has taught literature and writing in Seattle, Wash., Boulder, and Rome, Italy. Her poems have appeared in many journals. "Bloodline" is her first book of poems. She lives in Boulder.

Number of pages: 89

Online: 3taospress.com/authors/radha-marcum

Local event: 8 p.m. Thursday, Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, innisfreepoetry.com


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