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.
The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman. Kate Baer shot into the literary stratosphere with the publication of her debut poetry collection, What Kind of Woman, which became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Kate's second ful
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Kind of Woman returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers, supporters and detractors-- a ritual that reclaims the vitriol from online trolls and inspires readers to transform what is ugly or painful in