{"product_id":"a-daughters-work-is-heartless-by-nature-paperback-1","title":"A Daughter's Work Is Heartless by Nature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCaledonia Kearns\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brave and evocative meditation on motherlove, which considers how we rebuild ourselves after loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaledonia Kearns' first collection of poems, published at 49, is an attempt to meet Muriel Rukeyser's challenge, \"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?\/The world would split open\". Kearns' poems tell the story of an ordinary woman raising a daughter as a second-generation single mother, as she recreates herself after marriage, negotiates lovers lost and found, and navigates the quotidian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Kearns' childhood in Dorchester, Massachusetts (\"the streets of that other city\/were so quiet it was always a lonely dark\") to her daughter's childhood during the first wave of gentrification in Brooklyn (\"This is Brooklyn now.\/ The antenna factories across the street are long gone\"), it is a deeply urban story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in four parts, Kearns begins--\"Coming from where I do\/there was no choice but to bet on the filly.\" She moves on to explore the reconstruction of the self after the end of a marriage and the search for connection. The collection ends with a reckoning--her daughter's depression and hospitalization before she leaves for college: \"I don't want to say\/sometimes my daughter wants to die\/but if I don't there's no saving her\/sometimes my daughter wants to die.\" Along the way her daughter's voice infuses the occasional commentary: \"How you think\/you fucked me up\/is not how\/you fucked me up.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClear-eyed and persistent, the virtue of \"A Daughter's Work Is Heartless by Nature\" is its straightforward, accessible lyric, its relentless search for beauty in the day-to-day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 90\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351397122297,"sku":"9781635349856","price":28.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/TkdOZEVNQ0RNWFhhOHdnNDdSZVk5UT09_8eb0a8d8-9c56-4519-b083-d2fc5a727b99.webp?v=1769800211","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-daughters-work-is-heartless-by-nature-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}