Poetry. FROM WHERE THE RIVERS COME never flinches from the body's inevitable vulnerabilities, nor from the soul's response to the emotional collisions of living in a body. From sideshow performers, such as the "Anatomical Wonder" and "Human Pincushion," who suffers from a congenital immunity to pain, to victims of torture and clinically depressed strangers, Solly gives us exacting portraits of human life at its most fragile and resilient extreme. He doesn't hesitate to include his own pain: the loss of love, his mother's death, his own medically reconfigured body. Richard Solly was educated at Iowa State University and Hazelden Graduate School of Addiction Studies. He currently works as a senior acquisition editor for Hazelden Publishing, and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.