The poems of "what mothers withhold" are songs of brokenness and hope in a mother's voice, poems of the body in its fierceness and failings. Elizabeth Kropf 's poems revel in peeling back silence, and invite us to witness a complicated and traumatic world that is also filled with love.
-Cindy Huyser, poet and editor, author of "Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems."
With these visceral poems, poet and mother Elizabeth Kropf has composed a chant of the vocabulary of vulnerability. From fertility to conception to birth-or not-and into motherhood, Kropf's recounting of her experiences compels the reader to enter and acknowledge the power of what mothers endure and withhold.
-Anne McCrady, author of Letting Myself In and Along Greathouse Road
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I wish for chocolate chip cookies warm. I wish to dip them in milk. Cow's milk - because there is no lactose intolerance in dreams. CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES WITH MADELINE L'ENGLE
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(@FLPress, 4 January 2021, ebook, 80 pages, #ARC from the publisher and voluntarily reviewed, blog tour 7 January via @PoeticBookTours)
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This is my first time reading the poet. I really enjoyed the poems in this collection. The poems explore the wide-ranging theme of motherhood and all this encompasses, touching on relationships, childhood and memories. The poems are heartfelt, stirring and very personal. I felt like I was intruding at times on personal memories. The best poems are Chocolate Chip Cookies With Madeline L-Engle, Heel-Click, Stir and Her Alone.
