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Adrienne Gruber’s third full poetry collection, Q & A, is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places, a grotesque history of the treatment of pregnant and birthing women reveals itself.
“This collection is simultaneously a poetic memoir, a love letter (“or a poem of grief”) from mother to daughter, and a birthbook, recording conception, gestation, birth, and some of the postpartum period.” —The Maynard
“Q & A is a fascinating collection of poems because it pulls back the veil on things that haven’t often been spoken about when it comes to the bodily journeys that women undertake during their lifetimes… These are poems that don’t shirk from the gruesome physicality of birthing, but there is beauty here, too, in the poet’s love for her daughter, and in the recognition that there are many sides to the prism of a woman’s life.” —periodicities
“The poems in Q & A exist precisely within that intimate space, intricately observed, questioned and explored… but Gruber pulls apart through a different lens, articulating short narratives that focus on moments both large and small through an urgency, anxiety and the discovery that letting go is as important as holding close.” —rob mclennan
“Q & A traverses fraught terrain only to end up, on its final page, with a resolution that feels potent and – not unimportantly – earned. These are poems that confront their subject matter directly and with scant regard for a reader’s refined sensibilities… What [Gruber] offers us is nothing less than the stuff of life itself.” —Quill & Quire
112 Pages
8.70in * 5.80in * .40in
.35lb
160.00gr
April 01, 2019
9781771664721
eng
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