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Mother

Mother

Lasky, Dorothea

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $22.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 15, 2026

ISBN13: 9798891060470
Publisher: Wave Books
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Dorothea Lasky's stunning new collection of poems presents an unfurling, terrifying, and fiercely loving embodiment of motherhood as a force of creation.

Inspired by Bernadette Mayer's The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, Lasky writes from the inner realm of a third pregnancy and guides us through a suspended timeline taut with anticipation. Mother documents caring for small children, the death of the mother, and the simultaneous anxiety and darkness of impending birth, as Lasky transmits from a deep mythic and biologically immediate space: And even though I've spent / Eight months now / Dreading the sight / Of anything red / Now I long to bleed all over. Invoking the eternal symbol of the mother, Lasky asks us to consider an expansive understanding of the horror and devotion inherent in the daily practices of existence.

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