Motherhood is a wide territory, spanned by joy, despair, and the endless reinvention of familiar landscapes into something breathtaking and new. In Mary Block’s Love from the Outer Bands, motherhood is a kind of survival: what endures the hurricane, what is forever altered, and what we delight in discovering after the storm. The Decadent Movement: Poems by Laura Kolbe reverses time, going from balancing the demands of a newborn and marriage to worries about personhood and agency during pregnancy, to yearning to invent something new on one’s own terms, even in the face of so much loss. Night transforms how we see the world in Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Night Owl: Poems, an effervescent collection blending an the poet’s trademark encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world with her deep understanding and care for the family and beloveds occupying it. Emily Skaja unflinchingly looks into the abyss of miscarriage and infertility in Black Lake: Poems, where a grief that the world won’t slow down for finds counterbalance in her dark humor, fury, and profound, self-exposing honesty. 

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