num_pages: 94
description: 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 Baers remarkable poem Things My Girlfriends Teach Me. In Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels she challenges her reader to consider their grandmothers cake the taste of the sea the cool swill of freedom. In her poem Deliverance about her daughters 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 Kates 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.
language: English
title: What Kind of Woman
publisher: Harper Perennial