What Kind of Woman - Poems

A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a wife, and a woman. "When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed." So ends Kate Baer's remarkable poem "Things My Girlfriends Teach Me." In "Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels" she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother's cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom. In her poem "Deliverance" about her daughter's birth she writes "What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?" Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. As easy to post on Instagram as they are to print out and frame, Kate's words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Baer
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780063008427
• ISBN: 978-0-06-300842-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Historical fiction, erotic fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Epic, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Contains explicit or offensive material or content, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, FICTION: Holidays, POETRY: Women Authors, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Places, FICTION: Erotica / Historical, POETRY: Epic, LITERATURE: POETRY, POETRY: Haiku *, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Poetry by form: Haiku, Literature / Poetry