Pocket Universe: Poems - Couverture souple

Reddy, Nancy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807175838 ISBN 13 : 9780807175835

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Nancy Reddy's Pocket Universe explores how the world becomes more wondrous and more perilous in the permanent after of parenthood. The collection begins in the public hospitals in sixteenth-century Paris--where women giving birth were as likely to die of fever as go home with healthy newborns--travels through the dizzying world of Instamommies and celebrities who effortlessly got their body "back" after baby, and ends with children singing at a bounce-house birthday party. Poems set those intimate, ostensibly domestic matters against weighty questions about human origins, our place in the universe, and the pervasive historical and present-day violence against mothers and children.

Pocket Universe traces an arc from the challenges and bodily horror of the first weeks home with a new baby, through the wonder of watching that child discover the world, and finally to the hard-won joy of motherhood.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nancy Reddy is the author of Double Jinx, a winner of the National Poetry Series, and coeditor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807175838
• ISBN 13: 9780807175835
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 84
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