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Q & A
Adrienne Gruber's third full poetry collection, Q & A , is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places, a grotesque history of the treatment of pregnant and birthing women reveals itself.
Praise for Q & A :
"To give birth, to bear life—to release and capture that experience in this is the crystalline achievement of Q & A . Gruber's poetry resonates in the hollows of my body, in the fear and hope that accompanies motherhood." —Marianne Apostolides, author of Deep Salt Water
"In Q&A Adrienne Gruber annotates the condition of the pre- and post-partum body, training her ruthless poetic eye on cell by cell, mother from daughter, fact from misguided historical tendency. Is this a love poem / or a poem of grief? / When we make something / we lose, she writes. Throughout these poems and their namesake childhood interrogatives, fluids course, sutures tear, ducts leak. Gruber's ability to command the language of sublime physicality draws motherhood's grotesque fears close, turning them over like an infant on a lap, examining perfections and dangers with intimate scrutiny." —Elee Kraljii Gardiner, author of Trauma Head and serpentine loop
Praise for Q & A :
"To give birth, to bear life—to release and capture that experience in this is the crystalline achievement of Q & A . Gruber's poetry resonates in the hollows of my body, in the fear and hope that accompanies motherhood." —Marianne Apostolides, author of Deep Salt Water
"In Q&A Adrienne Gruber annotates the condition of the pre- and post-partum body, training her ruthless poetic eye on cell by cell, mother from daughter, fact from misguided historical tendency. Is this a love poem / or a poem of grief? / When we make something / we lose, she writes. Throughout these poems and their namesake childhood interrogatives, fluids course, sutures tear, ducts leak. Gruber's ability to command the language of sublime physicality draws motherhood's grotesque fears close, turning them over like an infant on a lap, examining perfections and dangers with intimate scrutiny." —Elee Kraljii Gardiner, author of Trauma Head and serpentine loop
- GenresPoetry
112 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2019
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December 31, 2020
If you are a Mother, you will love all of the delicious bits in this short book of poetry about conception, childbirth, motherhood, and love. I particularly liked learning about "The Blonsky". OMG hilarious, thank goodness it it did not take off like many of the other crazy childbirth ideas used on women over the years.
April 18, 2019
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July 13, 2024
Q&A is a gorgeous collection of poems by @adriennegruber (who just released a new collection of essays called MONSTERS, MARTYRS, AND MARIONETTES). It's about those first heady years of motherhood and it's such a treat.
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