Birthroot New Release Michael Meyerhofer

Michael Meyerhofer

In carefully crafted yet conversational lines

Cephalopodic is a thoughtful

In this elegy to her brother's death by Parkinson's

” she writes in “To Cast a Shadow Again

Birthroot New Release Michael MeyerhoferIn this noteworthy debut collection, Lisa Marie Oliver gives us startling, deeply moving poems of new motherhood. Enduring sleep deprivations disassembling madness, she confesses: I knew motherhood would break my body, but not my brain, making it so eerily moonlike that it waxes and wanes. Vigilant, achingly tender, this new mother sometimes sees herself as a besotted, devoted monster: Medusa bleeding a little Medusa leaking milk Medusa eager for sun