{"product_id":"mouths-open-to-name-her-poems-9780807169872","title":"Mouths Open to Name Her: Poems","description":"\u003ci\u003eMouths Open to Name Her\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Katie Bickham's dazzling new collection, resounds with the intensity of new motherhood and confronts the relationship between mothers and their children, as she explores what it means to carry a child, even one conceived by rape or \"a child born from no place, from the flame of her forgetting, \/ bracket of blank pages. The boy, too, was destined to forget-- \/ a bird from no tree branch, fish from no river, sword from no forge.\" Moving from the mid-1800s to 2017, these finely wrought poems grapple with how war, violence, and enslavement can disrupt our innocence. Bickham emphasizes the power of creation in spite of this: \"Just picture them all,\" she writes, \"350,000 babies, together at once, \/ a city's worth of them in a row or a circle or wrapped \/ in an acres-wide blanket, an army of innocence yawning \/ their first breaths over the globe, and the promise \/ that it will all happen again, just like this, just as imperfectly, \/ no matter what, \/ tomorrow.\" \u003ci\u003eMouths Open to Name Her\u003c\/i\u003e calls forth a global sisterhood that extends from Charleston, South Carolina, and Shreveport, Louisiana, to Nice, France; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and the Serengeti District, Tanzania.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katie Bickham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.19d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807169872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Bickham\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Belle Mar, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eRattle, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Deep South Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She is assistant professor of English and creative writing at Bossier Parish Community Colleg\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40161609973875,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b8d0e19d-efd1-4707-b77f-3a4f3cd067df.jpg?v=1654955219","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/mouths-open-to-name-her-poems-9780807169872","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}