Although they were also surreal and dealt with magical themes, they were more based in reality, and I needed an escape quite honestly. So, I was writing Rosa’s Einstein simultaneously alongside other books, which were autobiographical in nature including my first, Landscape with Headless Mama. I got into this in the first place because I was dealing with some very heavy, emotionally traumatic memories while experiencing postpartum depression and psychological trauma. Magically, in that I didn’t even set out to begin researching for this book the way you would research for a novel or an article or creative nonfiction. Jenn Givhan: So much of it happened organically and almost by happenstance. How did the process of research feed into your poetry? How did it spark or reset your drafting? Bruner: Rosa’s Einstein derives much of its inspiration from a massive amount of research-everything from Einstein and his lost daughter Lieserl to time relativity and atomic theory to fairytales and Princess Alice. She has received, among other honors, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellowship, and New Ohio Review’s Poetry Prize, chosen by Tyehimba Jess.Ĭassandra J. Her poems have appeared in The Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Poetry, The New Republic, Crazyhorse, and Kenyon Review. Jenn Givhan, a Mexican-American writer and activist from the Southwestern desert, is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Rosa’s Einstein (Camino Del Sol Poetry Series, 2019), two chapbooks, and two novels, Trinity Sight and Jubilee, both forthcoming from Blackstone Press.
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