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Poems
Random House
February 2007
On Sale: February 6, 2007
96 pages
ISBN: 1400063590
EAN: 9781400063598
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Fiction Poetry
Nine years after the stunning debut of her critically
acclaimed poetry collection A Working Girl Can’t Win, which
chronicled the progress and predicaments of a young woman,
Deborah Garrison now moves into another stage of
adulthood–starting a family and saying good-bye to a more
carefree self. In The Second Child, Garrison explores every facet of
motherhood–the ambivalence, the trepidation, and the joy
(“Sharp bliss in proximity to the roundness, / The globe
already set aspin, particular / Of a whole new life”)– and
comes to terms with the seismic shift in her outlook and in
the world around her. She lays out her post-9/11 fears as
she commutes daily to the city, continues to seek passion in
her marriage, and wrestles with her feelings about faith and
the mysterious gift of happiness. Sometimes sensual, sometimes succinct, always candid, The
Second Child is a meditation on the extraordinariness
resident in the everyday–nursing babies, missing the past,
knowing when to lead a child and knowing when to let go.
With a voice sound and wise, Garrison examines a life fully
lived.
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