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    612-822-4611

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Lying in: Poems

Lying in: Poems

Metzger, Elizabeth

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1639550100
ISBN13: 9781639550104
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Apr 11 2023
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief.

All my life all I've wanted was to be myself / and someone else, writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the shadowy perspective of confinement, where the presence of death unsettles all outcomes, these poems examine an expansion and fracturing of the self-into motherhood as well as childhood, into past selves and future unknowns. The child becomes parent, the parent becomes child, the child arrives but in doing so is lost. New loss haunts new life, and life becomes one or two lives. The door is more valuable than the prize behind it.

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