Birthroot New Release Ruth Goring

Ruth Goring

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

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

Michael Meyerhofer

Cephalopodic is a thoughtful

Birthroot New Release Ruth GoringIn 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