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Pocket Universe: Poems

✍ Scribed by Nancy Reddy

Book ID: 110716238
Publisher: LSU Press
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Weight: 37 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780807177037
ASIN: B09JJV3S53

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ 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.

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