{"product_id":"bring-down-the-little-birds-on-mothering-art-work-and-everything-else-paperback","title":"Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarmen Giménez Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow 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 \u003ci\u003eBring Down the Little Birds\u003c\/i\u003e, Carmen Gim nez Smith faces this seeming irreconcilability head-on, offering a powerful and necessary lyric memoir to shed light on the difficulties--and joys--of being a mother juggling work, art, raising children, pregnancy, and being a daughter to an ailing mother, and, perhaps most important, offering a rigorous and intensely imaginative contemplation on the concept of motherhood as such. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Writing in fragmented yet coherent sections, the author shares with us her interior monologue, affording the reader a uniquely honest, insightful, and deeply personal glimpse into a woman's first and second journeys into motherhood. Gim nez Smith begins \u003ci\u003eBring Down the Little Birds \u003c\/i\u003eby detailing the relationship with her own mother, from whom her own concept of motherhood originated, a conception the author continually reevaluates and questions over the course of the book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Combining fragments of thought, daydreams, entries from notebooks both real and imaginary, and real-life experiences, Gim nez Smith interrogates everything involved in becoming and being a mother for both the first and second times. She wonders what her children will one day know about her own \"secret life,\" meditates on the physical effects of pregnancy, and questions the myths about, nostalgia for, and glorification of motherhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While Gim nez Smith incorporates universal experiences of motherhood that other authors have detailed throughout literature, what separates her book from these many others is that her reflections are captured in a style that establishes an intimacy and immediacy between author and reader through which we come to know the secret life of a mother and are made to question our own conception of what motherhood really means.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining fragments of thought, daydreams, entries from notebooks--both real and imaginary--and real-life experiences, GimAA(c)nez Smith interrogates everything involved in becoming and being a mother. From wondering what her children will one day know about her own \"secret life\" to meditations on the physical effects of pregnancy as well as the myths, the nostalgia, and the glorification of motherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarmen Giménez Smith is an assistant professor in the English department at New Mexico State University, the editor-in-chief of the literary journal\u003ci\u003e Puerto del Sol\u003c\/i\u003e, and the publisher of Noemi Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.96 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757825261856,"sku":"9780816528691","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/19cfabe3a62d8c27fa802b9d37562a53.webp?v=1780112646","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bring-down-the-little-birds-on-mothering-art-work-and-everything-else-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}