Mother

Mother - Paperback

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Mother - Paperback

Mother - Paperback

by Dorothea Lasky
$22.00
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9798891060470
Author Dorothea Lasky
PublisherWave Books
GenreLiterature and Family
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages88
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Mother

Mother - Paperback

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By Dorothea Lasky

About Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Shining (2023). She is also the author of the prose book Animal (2019) and a forthcoming book about Sappho, as well as the editor of Essays (2023) and a coeditor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (2013). Her writing has appeared in POETRY, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and Boston Review, among other places.

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