Lying in: Poems Metzger Elizabeth
Lying in: Poems Metzger Elizabeth A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief. From the shadowy perspective of confinement, where the presence of…
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Lying in: Poems Metzger Elizabeth
A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief. From the shadowy perspective of confinement, where the presence of death unsettles all outcomes, these poems examine an expansion and fracturing of the self--into motherhood as well as childhood, into past selves and future unknowns. "All my life all I've wanted was to be myself / and someone else," writes Elizabeth Metzger.
New loss haunts new life, and life becomes "one or two lives." The door is more valuable than the prize behind it. The child becomes parent, the parent becomes child, the child arrives but in doing so is lost. With ambivalence as well as deep feeling, Metzger wonders how a single body can be expected to hold both immense joy and immense mourning, profound longing and creeping numbness, when one so often overtakes the other.
She plunges into the darkness inside--of the
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