Birthroot New Release Her re-visitation of past tragedy

Her re-visitation of past tragedy and its players comes at the reader forcibly-in the form of "wire cutters

Michael Meyerhofer

That resonance holds hands with the rain that sits at the center of this collection's heart

In this elegy to her brother's death by Parkinson's

Birthroot New Release Her re-visitation of past tragedyIn this noteworthy debut collection, Lisa Marie Oliver gives us startling, deeply moving poems of new motherhood. Enduring sleep deprivations disassembling madness, she confesses: I knew motherhood would break my body, but not my brain, making it so eerily moonlike that it waxes and wanes. Vigilant, achingly tender, this new mother sometimes sees herself as a besotted, devoted monster: Medusa bleeding a little Medusa leaking milk Medusa eager for sun