After Birth

"The poems in Elizabeth Rosss After Birth take on the turbulence, epiphanies and heartbreaks of mighty change with unrelenting honesty and brio; happily and triumphantly, they steer clear of the soft-focus mawkishness that often dogs the treatment of motherhood. What we have here treats birth, child-rearing, and how the mother-body interacts with the world at large with a crackling combination of wit, tenderness, and absurdity. An incandescent and immensely pleasurable book." Alexandra Oliver, author of Let the Empire Down and Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway