Stories to Read Aloud to Your Fetus - by Alina Stefanescu (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A collection of story-poems about the space inside a human womb and what occupies it. An epistemological exploration of embryos and mothers.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In search of a new epistemology to address the fetus, poet Alina Stefanescu draws on her experience as an immigrant from a totalitarian country to probe the body's most ineffable borders. Her story-poems acknowledge the complexity of the female body-- and the fertile terrain between its possibilities and vulnerabilities. An intimate geography of the relationships between female bodies and their babies, whether bourne, born, or unborn, these are the tongues kept silent in polite social circles. These are the women no one talks about. These are our mothers, sisters, wives, neighbors, and lovers. This is life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Alina Stefanescu's hybrid poems shed light on the mysterious contours of the female body and psyche. These works bear witness to the plight of women in their relationships with the world--their children, mothers, the men they love, the men they fear, nature, religion, and societal/ cultural expectations. A woman's vulnerabilities are her strengths; her strengths are her vulnerabilities, and yet, "One single wing is proof of a sky."</p><p> </p><p><strong>Faith Garbin</strong></p><p>Author of <em>How We Bury Our Dead </em>(Negative Capability Press)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I can say this unequivocally--that <em>Stories to Read Aloud To Your Fetus</em> is one of the best poetry books I have read in the last decade--or more. Alina Stefanescu is a major talent and a new voice to rank alongside that of Anna Akhmatova, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Sue Brannan Walker</strong></p><p>Poet Laureate of Alabama 2003-2012, Professor Emerita, University </p><p>of South Alabama and Publisher of Negative Capability Press</p><br>
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