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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Birth of a Daughter

Birth of a Daughter

Kolber, Samantha

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1952326362
ISBN13: 9781952326363
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Aug 17 2020
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
New and sensitive ... raw, in-the-moment mothering feelings.

-Sarah Cannon, author of The Shame of Losing

In Birth of a Daughter, 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.

- Kerrin McCadden, author of Keep This to Yourself

In her startling, beautiful new collection, Birth of a Daughter, 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.

- Megan Buchanan, author of Clothesline Religion

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