Description:
Button Poetry is thrilled to re-release Rachel Camacho's critically-acclaimed debut Pink Elephant.
Pink Elephant is a song of survival, gritty and honest, brutal and beautiful. Camacho's entrancing storytelling and rich language are hypnotic-refusing to let the reader look away. The collection dissects a coming-of-age within an abusive home, the recovery from that trauma, and what building a family looks like in the aftermath.
Dark but edged with humor, Pink Elephant still embraces love through its troubles. If you haven't read it yet (or need an excuse to read it again), you have to pick up this newest edition!
Brief description:
Rachel Camacho is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and misfit educator with three acclaimed full-length books of poetry, blud (2017) Into the Dark & Emptying Field (2013) and Pink Elephant (2009, re-released in 2026.)
In 2012, Camacho founded The Pink Door Writing Retreat, an annual intensive held exclusively for non-men writers of color in upstate New York.
Camacho was recently the subject of the podcast We Were Three, from the producers of Serial.
She believes Palestine will be free in her lifetime.