Patter : poems / Douglas Kearney.

For a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is won, and life stares, hungry, in the parents' faces, where does that violence, anxiety, and shame go? The poems in Patter re-imagine miscarriages as minstrel shows, ma...

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Main Author: Kearney, Douglas (Author)
Other title:Poems.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The pool, 1998
  • Father of the year
  • Miscarriages
  • It is designed for children
  • Goooooo or goooooo or goooooo
  • In the end, they were born on TV
  • New parents.