Lying in: Poems

by Elizabeth Metzger

A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief.

"All my life all I've wanted was to be myself / and someone else," writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the shadowy perspective of confinement, where the presence of death unsettles all outcomes, these poems examine an expansion and fracturing of the self-into motherhood as well as childhood, into past selves and future unknowns. The child becomes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639550100
• ISBN13: 9781639550104
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.3"