Birth
Subtitle: a literary companion
By: edited by Kristin Kovacic and Lynne Barrett.
Contributors: Kovacic, Kristin, 1963-; Barrett, Lynne.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Childbirth -- Literary collections.; Parent and child -- Literary collections.; American literature -- 20th century.; Parenting -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: "Birth: A Literary Companion collects the poems, stories, and essays of fifty accomplished writers to guide new parents through the complex emotional terrain of pregnancy, labor, birth, and parenthood. Birth covers the huge emotional spectrum that new parents pass through - from fear and loathing to uncontainable joy.

Embracing all kinds of parents - gay and straight, mothers and fathers, married and single, adoptive and biological - the book unlocks, through literature, the secrets of parenthood that science and society rarely reveal."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.