Title: Animals
Subtitle: Poems
First published: 1979
Description: “Mattison has written the best poems I know about the ‘Bodiliness,’ the sheer physicality of pregnancy and motherhood. The poems are about much more than this; but they start from here. There is a wonderful ebullience and bravado, intelligence and freshness about her book. I hope everyone reads it.” —Frank Bidart

“Poems by Alice Mattison…wind up being superb poems about ‘being a woman’ because they are so unsparingly and un-selfpityingly about the perceptions and feelings of Alice Mattison.” —*The Boston Globe*
Subjects: Poetry, American poetry, American women authors, Women authors, 20th century poetry, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Children, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
LC classification: PS3563.A8598 A8 1979