I Should Have Given Them Water

I Should Have Given Them Water is a sensual and heartbreaking new collection of poetry by San Francisco-based poet Eileen Malone. With a maximalist style, Malone's hard-edged poems make the most of grammatical ambiguities and compel the reader to fully engage with her unique sense of the incongruous. Offering feminine as well as feminist testimony to the experience of being a woman in the 21st century, Malone is a widely published poet, mental health activist and the host of a television series on the arts in California.

EILEEN MALONE's short stories, poetry, and articles have appeared in over 200 publications in the United States and Great Britain. Her twenty years of teaching experience includes work with the California Poets in the Schools Program as well as California community colleges. She lives in Colma, California.