I -- In the Hôtel-Dieu -- The Thing (1982) -- Feast Day -- First Light -- New Year New You -- Tin Anniversary -- The Sun King Invents Stirruped Birth -- Painless Childbirth -- Twilight -- The Russian Method -- Everything Is Animals -- Golden Hour -- II -- Postpartum -- Your Best Post-Baby Body -- Anatomical Venus -- The Nature of Love -- The Braided Stream -- Goodnight Mother, Goodnight Moon -- Ghosts in the Nursery -- Fable -- Ordinary Pleasure -- The Good Enough Mother -- A Good Comfortable Road -- My Sentimental Baby III -- Naming the World -- The End of Limbo -- And Not By Sight -- The Middle Sin -- Taxonomy of Dads -- The Second First Year -- The Universe Has a Temperature -- After Cocktail Hour -- Spooky Action at a Distance -- IV -- A Universe Composed of Solely Light -- On the First Night of the Afterlife -- The Fifth Great Ape -- Mother Tongue -- The News from Happy Valley -- The New Domesticity -- The Moon Lets Go -- Goldilocks Zone -- Dark Matter.
Summary:
"Framed by the author's own experience of early motherhood, Pocket Universe examines how the world becomes both more wondrous and more perilous in the permanent after of parenthood. Nancy Reddy's poems probe that wonder and danger through examinations of her own experiences of pregnancy, birth, postpartum difficulty, and all the ordinary joys, heartache, and tedium of life with small children. Setting that personal narrative against a backdrop of larger questions about human origins and ways of knowing, Pocket Universe inquires into our place in the universe and how we acquire knowledge through history, archaeology, scientific study, and our own bodies, while also reflecting on current events that expose ongoing violence against mothers and children. With its innovative, boundary-breaking poems, Pocket Universe considers motherhood with both candor and tenderness"-- Provided by publisher.
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