03886nam 2200613 a 450 991077946680332120230607225132.00-8093-9027-21-299-05086-7(CKB)2550000000996701(EBL)1354632(OCoLC)856870438(SSID)ssj0000822616(PQKBManifestationID)11505665(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822616(PQKBWorkID)10756506(PQKB)11704478(MiAaPQ)EBC1354632(OCoLC)828870154(MdBmJHUP)muse25907(Au-PeEL)EBL1354632(CaPaEBR)ebr10654964(CaONFJC)MIL436336(EXLCZ)99255000000099670120000711d2001 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrThis country of mothers[electronic resource] /Julianna BaggottCarbondale Crab Orchard Review Southern Illinois University Pressc20011 online resource (95 p.)Crab Orchard award series in poetryDescription based upon print version of record.0-8093-2381-8 Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; How It Begins; Kitchens: 1959; Conception; The Cold War: My Parents as Newlyweds; My Mother Gives Birth; Two; Correcting Memory; The Knocking Tree; Recalling the Leg; Nights in Tijuana; Learning to Say No at the Immaculate Conception High School; First Time; What We Didn't Talk about at Fifteen; My Mother Refuses to Wear Glasses; My Grandfather Returns after Many Years; How I Fear God; Coming Home at Seventeen; My Mother's National Geographics; The Annunciation: Our Mothers at Church; ThreeAfter Giving Birth, I Recall the Madonna and ChildFirst Pregnancy; Satisfying the God of Statistics; Preschool; Seventy Degrees in December; Checkup after the Operation to Evacuate the Dead Fetus; You Found Me in the Dry Tub, Fevered, Whispering of God; After the Miscarriage; Mother as Judas; The Pill; Language Lab, Paris, 1989; After Eleven Days of Rain; The Cow Remembers Urus; Pharaoh's Dream; My Daughter's Sight; My Daughter, like Eve, Realizes Nakedness; Cesarean; Four; What the Poets Could Have Been; Blurbs; Dear Mr.Houdini,The Assumption: Mary's Heart in the Guinness Book of World RecordsWhat I Told the Jehovah's Witness; Discussing Sorrow with Jesus; My Cousin Attempts Suicide in Gander Hill Prison; Jesus in the Mail; On My Husband's Thirty-Third Birthday; Living Where They Raised Me; The Beginning; The Dead Must Disappear or Join a Story; Five; My Mother among Bears; My Mother Prays to Dream of Her Dead Father; My Mother in the Garden; Mummification; The Extra Rib; Also in the Series; Back CoverA mosaic of memories, the poems of This Country of Mothers recollect Julianna Baggott's experiences as both mother and daughter. With wit, compassion, aggression, and anxiety, Baggott examines her maternal history. She recalls moments of creation and destruction in her life, times of elation and of desperation that mold her as both a woman and a poet. This affecting study of motherhood is framed in issues of Catholicism and of poetry itself, challenging and espousing the roles of both. Throughout her poems, Baggott's personal experiences embrace universal themes to birth poCrab Orchard Series in PoetryMothersPoetryMothers and daughtersPoetryMothersMothers and daughters811/.6Baggott Julianna1472542MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779466803321This country of mothers3685384UNINA