""A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all," Jennifer Worth, author of Call the Midwife. It is midwifing in its broadest sense-from releasing a newborn's stuck shoulders or catching a baby in the caul, to Socratic questioning around body autonomy, social justice and climate sustainability. The poems are layered and bi-cultural, rooted in contrasts between America and Sweden, as well as between colonial/industrial and ecological/relational ways of caring for each other and the earth. With a sense of humor, love, art ...
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""A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all," Jennifer Worth, author of Call the Midwife. It is midwifing in its broadest sense-from releasing a newborn's stuck shoulders or catching a baby in the caul, to Socratic questioning around body autonomy, social justice and climate sustainability. The poems are layered and bi-cultural, rooted in contrasts between America and Sweden, as well as between colonial/industrial and ecological/relational ways of caring for each other and the earth. With a sense of humor, love, art and aging, Jordemoder is a collection of midwifed hope"--
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Ingrid Andersson's poetry demands and welcomes all of your heart. If poetry reshapes language to express the indefinable, Andersson's poetry expands our mother tongue to better articulate the authenticities of our lives. Her debut collection is one of "midwifed hope," humbly exulting the messiness of the ordinary and asking us to live well together. No poet honors our humanity more. Though often reflective of her daughterhood, motherhood, and Swedish heritage, this is not an insulated, personal collection about the poet; it is an intimate collection about us. A global citizen with a midwife's vantage point, Andersson intricately explores the relationships of living beings to each other and to systems, isms, nations, the environment, and life stages. She writes gracefully and fiercely, making no attempt to romanticize birth, death, or the swells of life in between; instead, Andersson offers an honest music we all want to tune into again and again. With sensorial imagery and gifted storytelling, she "sees into the life of things," as Wordsworth suggests, and poignantly reminds us to look, too. From the warm, humorous, and loving voice of a midwife, Jordemoder is a poised collection urging us to see and hear the "wren's tremble-chatter," "strong-willed goldenrod," "aging speckled hen," and "old-world lilacs."
