{"product_id":"pocket-universe-poems-paperback","title":"Pocket Universe: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNancy Reddy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy Reddy's \u003ci\u003ePocket Universe\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the world becomes more wondrous and more perilous in the permanent \u003ci\u003eafter\u003c\/i\u003e 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 birthday party. Poems set those intimate, ostensibly domestic matters against weighty questions about human origins, our place in the universe, and the pervasive historical and present-day violence against mothers and children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePocket Universe\u003c\/i\u003e traces an arc from the challenges and bodily horror of the first weeks home with a new baby, through the wonder of watching that child discover the world, and finally to the hard-won joy of motherhood.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Reddy \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eDouble Jinx\u003c\/i\u003e, a winner of the National Poetry Series, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood.\u003c\/i\u003e She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 84\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759482929440,"sku":"9780807175835","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e306ec790427fc975ac32898ffbd035b.webp?v=1780154107","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/pocket-universe-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}