{"product_id":"all-its-charms-9781942683766","title":"All Its Charms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A precise and elegant look at motherhood, love, and what it means to live.\" --\u003ci\u003eSeattle Met\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A luminous new collection from Keetje Kuipers, \u003ci\u003eAll Its Charms\u003c\/i\u003e is a fearless and transformative reckoning of identity. By turns tender and raw, these poems chronicle Kuipers' decision to become a single mother by choice, her marriage to the woman she first fell in love with more than a decade before giving birth to her daughter, and her family's struggle to bring another child into their lives. \u003ci\u003eAll Its Charms\u003c\/i\u003e is about much more than the reinvention of the American family--it's about transformation, desire, and who we can become when we move past who we thought we would be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKuipers, Keetje:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Keetje Kuipers is the author of three books of poems, all from BOA Editions: \u003ci\u003eBeautiful in the Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Keys to the Jail\u003c\/i\u003e (2014); and \u003ci\u003eAll Its Charms\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). Kuipers' poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry, Narrative, American Poetry Review, Orion, Prairie Schooner, The Writer's Almanac, \u003c\/i\u003e and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series. She has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow, Bread Loaf's Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow, the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College, and the recipient of fellowships from the Lucas Artist Residency, the Jentel Artist Residency Foundation, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and PEN Northwest's Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. Kuipers lives with her wife and daughter on an island in the Salish Sea, where she is a faculty member at Seattle's Hugo House and Senior Editor at \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50476388712722,"sku":"9781942683766","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_74bd654d-8bee-404a-a6a2-6dfefd5084b9.jpg?v=1730250282","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-its-charms-9781942683766","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}