{"product_id":"day-of-the-child-a-poem-9781571315373","title":"Day of the Child: A Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Arra Lynn Ross, a tender, generous, and generative extended poem centered on the experience of parenthood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What is learned? I'll return for my son; \/ at school, at three thirty-eight, bells will ring \u0026amp; run \/ days over years.\" Using unpredictable syllabics, rhyme, and syntax, \u003cem\u003eDay of the Child \u003c\/em\u003ecaptures the sensation of altered time that accompanies a child's growth. Seasons come and go. A schoolboy becomes a dreaming infant becomes a five-year-old exploring metaphor for the first time becomes an ultrasound image, \"a frieze on screen.\" A mother cycles through her own often dissonant identities: \"soother, watcher, blame-taker.\" And both mother and child assume another, significant role: artistic collaborators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor\u003cem\u003e Day of the Child \u003c\/em\u003eis a poem co-created by child and mother, offering a space in which each's stories, thoughts, words--\"unbound \/ by Time \u0026amp; time's delineations\"--tangle together. In which apartness--\"Oh indivisible divisible,\" the presence of another heart beating inside the mother's own body--is continually negotiated. And in which the mother considers her place as intermediary between the child and the world: her protection, her complicity, her joy. Its octave pairs ebb and flow, expand and contract, producing a portrait of raising another human as refracted as it is circular, just as a river \"breaks into many suns, the sun.\" For, as the child asserts, \"love is a circl[e] round \/ as a Ball.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging the notion that parenthood is not itself a poetic endeavor, \u003cem\u003eDay of the Child \u003c\/em\u003emakes of childrearing \"a refrain I reframed each day with new words.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-14064694\"\u003eArra Lynn Ross\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.80w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571315373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023050\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Family\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE024000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArra Lynn Ross\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDay of the Child\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeedlip and Sweet Apple\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a poet, essayist, and puppet worker whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePassages North\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFourth Genre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRiver Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBirmingham Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAntioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eIowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693535564013,"sku":"9781571315373","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_1f5781d5-8a72-4f2c-908e-4ad27967ccb5.jpg?v=1649859950","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/day-of-the-child-a-poem-9781571315373","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}