The first poetry collection from Rachel Economy, published 2021 by Finishing Line Press.

’The poems in The Origins of Streams are full of earth-bodies: bees and dragonflies; potatoes and oceans. And these exist alongside human bodies, in intimate relationship to others & also to themselves. So a self-Heimlich maneuver to bring back breath; so the sensual bodying forth of earth from tongues and fingernails: this poet likes to be in the very thick of it. That means… trying to find a way to describe atomic agency as a kind of dance, magnetism and intentional choreography of non-human ecology fully intact; it means a persistent drilling down into a human that must also be of this earth. Rachel Economy knows that the wounds of what Adam Zagajewski calls the “mutilated world” are a shared landscape, that the earth is bound up in all of the other bodies to which it is also home. The Origin of Streams is filled to brimming with such revelations and, too, with the praise and grief which attend such close observations and experiences. This is, as the poet herself suggests, an offering born of “storyteller thumbs,” but it evolves in the surest hands.’

–Rick Benjamin, former Rhode Island state poet laureate