Book Title: I Don't Go Down That Road Anymore

Rachel Nix writes from the steep inclines of inheritance and memory, where past is a lived terrain. I Don’t Go Down That Road Anymore is a poetry collection tracing intimate geographies of family, place, and womanhood. Here, mothers and daughters braise like moon and sun, names are tried on and shed, inherited traits prescribe bodily identity as well as metaphysical, and these bodies also learn to be reclaimed. This collection challenges the meaning of leaving as a transformation rather than an escape, and even forgiveness treads suspiciously with its weight being measured, not freely given.

Nix presents the reader with a negotiation with what remains. Each poem is like turning away; inward, and forward-or all three in one.