Mothering Through the Darkness: Women Open Up About the Postpartum Experience Edited by Jessica Smock and Stephanie Sprenger She Writes Press, 2015 $16.95 Postpartum depression is the most common pregnancy-related complication with at least 1 in 7 new mothers mired in its dark water for months or even years, if left untreated. At least 1 …
Poems and Their Making: A Conversation Moderated by Philip Brady Etruscan Press, 2015 $23.95 Poems and Their Making: A Conversation isn’t the kind of book that you read through once and put away. In specific and individual ways, it is a peek inside the writing process of 31 accomplished poets. Whether a writer, reader, or …
Closing the Book: Travles in Life, Loss, and Literature by Joelle Renstrom Pelekinesis Books, 2015 $20.00 Joelle Renstrom’s collection of essays, Closing the Book: Travels in Life, Loss, and Literature, does not try to explain to the reader how to lose a loved one. This is not a self-help book, at least not in the …
Nestuary by Molly Sutton Kiefer Gold Line Press, 2014 $10.00 Sometimes you read something and wish you would have written it, it strikes a chord so deeply within you. Or, and probably even better, it inspires you to write your own story. For me, as I try to capture in words my voyage into motherhood, …