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Pocket universe : poems /

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, bi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reddy, Nancy, 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Motherhood > Poetry.
Mother and child > Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • I
  • In the HoÌ‚tel-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.