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Book SynopsisThe Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
''Gorgeous.'' Glennon Doyle
''Sharp observations on modern womanhood.'' Sunday Times
''Exquisite.'' Fi Glover
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend.
''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 son''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 Baer prov
