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forthcoming
generational trauma
housing insecurity
Hurricane Andrew
Katrin Siguroardottir
marriage
model home
natural disaster
parenthood
settlement of Miami
southern poetry
Stiltsville
survival narrative
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- ISBN 9780807187272
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of the 2026 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award
In Broken Houses, her fourth collection of poetry, Chelsea Rathburn offers a powerful meditation on home and the foundations—both physical and metaphorical, stable and unstable—that shape us. Drawing upon historical records, contemporary art, family photographs, and memory, Rathburn explores the settlement of the city of Miami, as well as her father's placement in a California foster home, to tell larger stories of dispossession and erasure.
At a time when the American Dream seems all the more unreachable, the poems in Broken Houses urge us to hold tight to one another and build connections where we can.
Chelsea Rathburn is the author of three previous books of poetry, most recently Still Life with Mother and Knife, winner of the Eric Hoffer Award in Poetry. Raised in Miami, she now lives in Macon, Georgia, and teaches at Mercer University. Since 2019, she has served as the poet laureate of Georgia.
