Tag: birth

REVIEW: RETURN FLIGHT – JENNIFER HUANG (MILKWEED EDITIONS)

February 3, 2022

“We love our families as hard as we can. We push forward. We learn languages that don’t lead us to shame because sometimes we “live in a perpetual state of I don’t know”. – Chris Margolin

REVIEW: LOOK LOOK LOOK – CALLISTA BUCHEN (BLACK LAWRENCE PRESS)

February 12, 2021

REVIEW: LOOK LOOK LOOK – CALLISTA BUCHEN (BLACK LAWRENCE PRESS)

There’s a sense of absence in this first section as the mother’s body becomes a singular state once again, but there’s also a slip from autonomy.

REVIEW: MOTHER MAY I? – JULIETTE van der MOLEN (ANIMAL HEART PRESS)

September 3, 2019

[This] is a haunting and eye opening collection which recounts heartbreaking personal experiences being both mother and mothered