{"product_id":"birth-of-a-daughter-9781952326363","title":"Birth of a Daughter","description":"New and sensitive ... raw, in-the-moment mothering feelings.\u003cp\u003e-Sarah Cannon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shame of Losing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBirth of a Daughter, \u003c\/i\u003e Samantha Kolber deftly reveals the private world of pregnancy and birth-the middle of the night and light of day worries about safety, connection, and intimacy, weighing what shifts, writing, \"I am marked. I am one becoming two, becoming one \/ again...my body deceives me.\" Indeed, these poems are brave in their accounting of the pregnant, birthing body, the realities of mothering, and the territory we enter-\"oh, these worlds we are now \/ you and I.\" Dailiness and milestones merge here, bringing us on a journey that is part emotional travelogue, part wonder, part weighing of generations and of our times, and part arrival at the precise awareness that, \"I am witness. I am mother.\" Kolber's voice is an important one, honoring what is often kept hidden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Kerrin McCadden, author of \u003ci\u003eKeep This to Yourself\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her startling, beautiful new collection, \u003ci\u003eBirth of a Daughter, \u003c\/i\u003e Samantha Kolber pulls us into the time-out-of-time experience of pregnancy and motherhood. Alert to the expanded \"porous\" boundaries of both body and self, Kolber writes with intimate, visceral authority: \"I am \/ clearly awake.\" Like salt-water pearls, these raw, gorgeous poems glow, capturing the wild internal variations felt just holding a new child or toddler in your arms, exhausted and exhilarated. \"I am me plus and minus the cells expunged to create you, daughter,\" Kolber writes, ever-attuned to the possibility of artistic sublimation to the hunger of her infant daughter. This collection affirms Kolber's territorial claim to the mother-as-artist: \"sucking what light I make \/ into the core of you \/ oh, these worlds we are now.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Megan Buchanan, author of \u003ci\u003eClothesline Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377985032466,"sku":"9781952326363","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f29c82e2-a2a3-44b5-9b12-0f3a8859e257.jpg?v=1728638303","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/birth-of-a-daughter-9781952326363","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}