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

Ruth Goring

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

In carefully crafted yet conversational lines

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