Title: All its charms poems /
Authors: Kuipers, Keetje,
Year: 2019
Subjects: American poetry; American poetry
Abstract: "A luminous new collection from Keetje Kuipers, All Its Charms is a fearless and transformative reckoning of identity. By turns tender and raw, these poems chronicle Kuipers' decision to become a single mother by choice, her marriage to the woman she first fell in love with more than a decade before giving birth to her daughter, and her family's struggle to bring another child into their lives. All Its Charms is about much more than the reinvention of the American family--it's about transformation, desire, and who we can become when we move past who we thought we would be"--
Contents: Becoming -- Landscape with sage and the names of my children -- The elk my father shot -- The house on Fish Hatchery Road -- Ars poetica composed in exile -- Native species -- First trimester -- At the Arlee Pow-Wow with my unborn child -- On needing to see a river -- At the Museum of Trades and Traditions -- Georgia -- Still life with nursing bra -- Outside the new body -- Getting the baby to sleep -- Migration instinct -- Landscape without -- Still life with small objects of perfect choking size -- At the small town drag show -- Springtime makes us want -- Love note -- Landscape with ocean and nearly dead dog -- My brother says my milk smells different -- At Golden Gate Park with you -- Shooting clay pigeons after the wedding -- Donetsk -- Yardwork -- Glassblower's glossary of flaws and defects -- Self-care at the playground -- Outside the refugium -- Picking huckleberries as the world ends -- Landscape with child -- On the haunted hayride with Audrey -- Laying on of hands -- I buy my white daughter a black doll -- The Great Lakes -- Spring letter from the south -- Anemoia -- Still life with caviar and crayons -- Names of rivers -- In the yard I lie on my back and dream of turtles -- At the Halloween party -- Abatement -- Collaborators -- Essentials -- After the farmers market, I make a salade nicoise -- Teaching day aubade -- After my shower, a bee at the window -- Digging out the splinter -- Wife -- Told you so -- We drive home from the lake, sand in our shoes -- Still life with beauty berries and two theories of time.