Increase
By: Lia Purpura.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Childbirth.; Mothers -- United States -- Biography.; Pregnancy.; Pregnant women -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Increase is Lia Purpura's chronicle of her pregnancy, the birth of her son, Joseph, and the first year of his life. She recounts her journey with the heightened awareness of a mother-to-be and through the eyes of a poet, from the moment she confirms her pregnancy as "a blue X slowly crosses itself, first one arm, then the other in the small white window of the test," through "the X of his crossed feet in sleep" as her child's world begins.

Purpura's sensibility transcends the facts of personal experience to enfold the dramatically changing shape of a larger, complex world.".

"These lyrical reflections portray the rhythms of a new mother's life as it is challenged and transformed in nearly every aspect, from the individual emotions of wildness, loss, need, and desire to the outward progress - and interruption - of her work and activities. Increase offers us motherhood at an extraordinary pitch, recording, absorbing, and revisiting experiences from a multitude of angles."--BOOK JACKET.