What Kind of Woman
豆瓣
Poems
Kate Baer
简介
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
"If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend.
“When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed.” So ends Kate Baer’s remarkable poem “Things My Girlfriends Teach Me.” In “Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels” she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother’s cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom. In her poem “Deliverance” about her son’s birth she writes “What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?”
Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate Bear proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. Her words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.
contents
Part I
Advice for Former Selves
Ego
Not Like Other Girls
Twenties
College Boy
First Love
Girls’ Night Out
Moon Song
Backyard Wedding
Plot Lines for Female Leads
My Friend Bethany Rages at the News
Female Candidate
Dearly Beloved
It’s Like This
Fat Girl
To Take Back a Life
Things My Girlfriends Teach Me
Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels
Unsettling
Robyn Hood
The Women Who Walk Us Home
Things Men Say to Me
2020
Comment Section
In Lieu of a Thank You Card
When Uncle Brian Asks If We Sit Around and Burn Bras
Commencement Address
Some Nights
Part II
Like a Wife
Curveball
For the Advice Cards at Bridal Showers
What I Meant
Hot Meals, Biology
Deleted Sentences
Wedlock
One Thousand Wives
What Kind of Man
Ode to My Desire
Fresh Lemonade
Missed Connections
Marriage as a Death
During This Double Date We Will Prove We Have a Happy Marriage
Etymology of the Word Wife
Crescendo
Vow Renewal
Marriage Tales
On Our Anniversary
Why You Shouldn’t Marry Me
When I Ask My Grandmother Why She Let Him Come Back Home
Fear of Happiness
Observations Through the Glass at the Human Zoo
Little Miracles
After a Psychic Tells Me I’m Going to Die
Part III
Third Trimester
For the Advice Cards at Baby Showers
Deliverance
New Year
Motherload
Social Studies
First Woman
Fortune Telling
Interview with Self
Mary’s Disappearance
Transfiguration
Good Mother
What Children Say
Childhood
Dogs at the Park
If My Daughter Wrote a Poem
My son
Back to School Shopping
Bus Stop
Mother’s Mind
On the Floor of the Family Car
Things No One Says to Me
Stronger That You Know
On the Evening of Her Birth
The Martian
What Mothers Say
Body Back
For My Daughter on a Bad Day
Author’s Note