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"The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrate the joy and wonder of motherhood and create a space for mothers to, as poet Molly Spencer has written, "tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back." The book carries forward the essential work of previous motherhood anthologies by speaking to our current moment through the work of many of the most exciting mid-career poets and by diversifying the voices and range of experiences presented. Motherhood is very much in the zeitgeist, making the timing ideal for an anthology with this scope. This volume contributes to vital current conversations about motherhood and engages in this important political work of promoting women's voices as they speak about the joyful and challenging parts of their lives. While many previous motherhood anthologies have focused on the experiences of married, straight, white, middle-class women, the contributors in this collection are diverse in terms of racial background, gender, sexual identity, and experiences of motherhood. The work in this book encompasses step-parenting; infertility; intersections of parenting and race; adoption and foster parenting; ambivalence about motherhood; parenting while struggling with chronic illness, mental illness, and disability; and parenting children who live with illness and disability. This rich range of perspectives is essential for understanding and portraying our moment and will encourage many women who have not previously seen their lives reflected in motherhood anthologies to engage with the book. In addition to poems, the book includes essays that engage writing and motherhood across a range of contexts, presenting multiple and complex answers to questions that mother-writers are always asking each other: How do you do it? How do you mother and write?"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Difficulty, Ambivalence, and Joy
• High Dangerous / Catherine Pierce
• Intimate Detail / Heid E. Erdrich
• Monarch / Shara Lessley
• Confession / Kiki Petrosino
• At the Museum of Trades and Traditions / Keetje Kuipers
• Leopard / Joy Ladin
• Sestina Gratitude / Joyelle Mcsweeney
• Self-Portrait as God with a Stillborn Inside / Chelsea Dingman
• Postpartum: Lullaby / Chelsea Rathburn
• Feed / Emily Mohn-Slate
• To White Noise / Carrie Fountain
• We See The Lion King on Broadway, I Enter the Pride / Remica Bingham-Risher
• Permanency / Megan Snyder-Camp
• I'm Your Mom / Lauren Haldeman
• Dear P. / Victoria Chang
• Landscape with Clinic and Oracle / Lynn Melnick
• Virgil, Hey / Camille Guthrie
• Rare Privilege / Carmen Gimenez Smith
• Mothering Solo / Khadijah Queen

• Sunday Dinner / Lisa L. Moore
• Baskets / Megan Snyder-Camp
• Writing Prompts
• Body and the Brain
• My Mother Bathes Me after I Give Birth / Kwoya Fagin Maples
• When the World Was Milk / Joan Naviyuk Kane
• From "The Black Maria," By Aracelis Girmay
• Latching On, Failing Off / Beth Ann Fennelly
• Pre-Op / Jordan Rice
• Earth Mover / Laura Da'
• Laboring / Chanda Feldman
• After Reading the Story of Assumption Chapel in Cold Spring, Minnesota / Molly Spencer
• Blackacre / Monica Youn
• We Never Talk about This: Chemical Pregnancy / Raina J. Leon
• Re-Education / Diannely Antigua
• Again / Jasminne Mendez
• I Pump Milk like a Boss / Kendra Decolo
• C-Section / Alexa Doran
• To My Brother, in Her Barrenness / Meg Day
• In This Body, You're Disappearing / Hope Wabuke
• Gold / Eugenia Leigh
• Pediatric Laboratory Feces Test #1 / Sherine Gilmour
• Veronicas of a Matador / Carolina Ebeid
• Ode to Disappointment / Zeina Hashem Beck
• Terrell Owens Private Messaged Me / Khadijah Queen
• Final Neon / Shamala Gallagher
• Confessional / Rachel Zucker
• More, More / Jasminne Mendez
• Monstrous Mothers: Maternal Guilt, Rage, and Writing / Chelsea Rathburn
• Quiet Part: On Poetry, Race, Mothering, and Silence / Erika Meitner
• I Stop Writing the Poem: On Motherhood and the Writing Life / Molly Spencer
• Writing Prompts
• In the World
• I Could Be a Whale Shark / Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• Experiment / Alison Stine
• This Year the Role of Boiling Hail Will Be Played by ______ / Maggie Smith
• Homeland Security / Nicole Cooley
• 10 weeks and intermittent: earning / Sara Mumolo
• Average Mother Now Spends Twice as Many Hours on Childcare as Did Her Counterpart in 1965, and She Also Spends Three Times as Many Hours Working Outside the Home; or, How to Sing a Song of Sixpence When You're Really Feeling Wry / Camille T. Dungy
• Suicide Prevention / Sarah Blake
• Monster / Natalie Shapero
• In Defense of the Empty Chaos Required for Adequate
• Preparation / Erika Meitner
• Raising White Men II / Lisa L. Moore
• Cajas/Boxes with Zero Tolerance #9 / Emmy Perez
• My Daughter Returns from My Ex-Wife's House with Braids in Her Hair / Allison Blevins
• Short Prose Piece on One of the Book's Central Themes / Julie Carr
• Nearly There / Clarissa Mendiola
• From "The Color Cure," By Joy Katz
• War Stories / Pamela Hart
• Revolutionary Kiss / Tina Chang
• Maybe the Milky Way / January Gill O'Neil
• Estranged, Changed, Suspended: My Path to Plath / Shara Lessley
• Savage Flower: One Mother Writing War / Pamela Hart
• From "On Writing ̀Cajas/Boxes with Zero Tolerance,'" By Emmy Perez
• On Mothering and Reading / Chanda Feldman
• Writing Prompts
• Transitions
• Whole Point / Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
• Birth Mother's Red Bath for Courage / Faylita Hicks
• From Winter: Aphorisms / Sarah Vap
• Kasthaputta Vanhu / Sunu P. Chandy
• Six Days in the Crabapple / Melissa Stephenson
• From "Whereas," By Layli Long Soldier
• Series of Short Stories or Propositions / Sun Yung Shin
• Two Glasses of Milk / Teri Ellen Cross Davis
• Our Family on the Run / Brenda Shaughnessy
• f = [(root) (future)] / Vanessa Angelica Villarreal
• Fallible Beasts / Emari Digiorgio
• Recognition / Sasha West
• More Moon / Kim-An Lieberman
• Inevitable / Mahogany L. Browne
• Extrapolating Motherhood / Krista Franklin
• Excavation / Jenn Givhan
• Nocturne / Angela Narciso Torres
• Words in the Air: On Audio Drafting / Emari Digiorgio
• War Songs: Mothering through Climate Change / Sasha West
• If I Admit Who I Am, Who Will I Become? / Jordan Rice
• Confetti Time / Melissa Stephenson
• Writing Prompts.

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Contributors:

Pérez, Emily (Poet) , editor

Reddy, Nancy, 1982- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Long devotion (Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2022] — ISBN 9780820360546; LCCN 2021046168)

Subjects:

Motherhood — Literary collections

Mothers — Literary collections

Mother and child — Literary collections

American literature — Women authors

American literature — 21st century

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Physical Description:

1 online resource

ISBNs:

9780820360584 (ebk)
0820360589
9780820360546 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021046169

OCLC Numbers:

1295617914

Other Control Numbers:

3242292 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302832445