LEADER 03919nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910452762803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8093-9027-2 010 $a1-299-05086-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000996701 035 $a(EBL)1354632 035 $a(OCoLC)856870438 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000822616 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11505665 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822616 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10756506 035 $a(PQKB)11704478 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354632 035 $a(OCoLC)828870154 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25907 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1354632 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10654964 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436336 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000996701 100 $a20000711d2001 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThis country of mothers$b[electronic resource] /$fJulianna Baggott 210 $aCarbondale $cCrab Orchard Review $cSouthern Illinois University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (95 p.) 225 0$aCrab Orchard award series in poetry 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8093-2381-8 327 $aCover; 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; Three 327 $aAfter 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, 327 $aThe 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 Cover 330 $aA mosaic of memories, the poems of This Country of Mothers recollect Julianna Baggott's experiences as both mother and daughter. With wit, compassion, aggression, and anxiety, Baggott examines her maternal history. She recalls moments of creation and destruction in her life, times of elation and of desperation that mold her as both a woman and a poet. This affecting study of motherhood is framed in issues of Catholicism and of poetry itself, challenging and espousing the roles of both. Throughout her poems, Baggott's personal experiences embrace universal themes to birth po 410 0$aCrab Orchard Series in Poetry 606 $aMothers$vPoetry 606 $aMothers and daughters$vPoetry 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMothers 615 0$aMothers and daughters 676 $a811/.6 700 $aBaggott$b Julianna$0878740 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452762803321 996 $aThis country of mothers$91961939 997 $aUNINA