Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else

by Carmen Gimenez Smith

How does a contemporary woman with a career as a poet, professor, and editor experience motherhood with one small child, another soon to be born, and her own mother suddenly diagnosed with a brain tumor and Alzheimer's? The dichotomy between life as a mother and life as an artist and professional is a major theme in modern literature because often the two seem irreconcilable. In Bring Down the Little Birds, Carmen Gim nez Smith faces this seeming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816528691
• ISBN13: 9780816528691
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"