
Pocket Universe
Poems
Nancy Reddy(Author)
Louisiana State University Press
Published on 30. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-8071-7583-5 (ISBN)
Description
Nancy Reddy's Pocket Universe explores how the world becomes more wondrous and more perilous in the permanent after of parenthood. The collection begins in the public hospitals in sixteenth-century Paris-where women giving birth were as likely to die of fever as go home with healthy newborns-travels through the dizzying world of Instamommies and celebrities who effortlessly got their body "back" after baby, and ends with children singing at a bounce-house birthday party. Poems set those intimate, ostensibly domestic matters against weighty questions about human origins, our place in the universe, and the pervasive historical and present-day violence against mothers and children.
Pocket Universe traces an arc from the challenges and bodily horror of the first weeks home with a new baby, through the wonder of watching that child discover the world, and finally to the hard-won joy of motherhood.
Pocket Universe traces an arc from the challenges and bodily horror of the first weeks home with a new baby, through the wonder of watching that child discover the world, and finally to the hard-won joy of motherhood.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-7583-5 (9780807175835)
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Nancy Reddy is the author of Double Jinx, a winner of the National Poetry Series, and coeditor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.