Pocket Universe: Poems

by Nancy Reddy

Book Overview

Nancy Reddy?s Pocket Universe explores how the world becomes more wondrous and more perilous in the permanent after of parenthood. The collection begins in the public hospitals in sixteenth-century Paris?where women giving birth were as likely to die of fever as go home with healthy newborns?travels through the dizzying world of Instamommies and celebrities who effortlessly got their body ?back? after baby, and ends with children singing at a bounce-house...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807175838
• ISBN13: 9780807175835
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"