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Starter Mothers - by Pamela Wax (Paperback)

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  • Starter Mothers courts the possibility of extinction and the tenacity of the life-force, both biologically and emotionally.
  • Author(s): Pamela Wax
  • 44 Pages
  • Poetry, Women Authors

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About the Book



Starter Mothers courts the possibility of extinction and the tenacity of the life-force with humor, compassion, and moral outrage. The title poem received an award from Oberon Poetry Magazine.



Book Synopsis



Starter Mothers courts the possibility of extinction and the tenacity of the life-force, both biologically and emotionally. The fullness of life-art, religion, nature, grief, fertility, and the resilience of the human spirit-is on display in these oftentimes spiritual poems that are written with humor, compassion, and moral outrage. Along the way, you will meet spiders, queen bees, rabbis, rabble-rousers-and yes, even starter mothers.The title poem received an award from Oberon Poetry Magazine.



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Wax has outdone herself. These very personal poems also open their arms and let the wide world in. These are poems of a restless and searching intelligence, hungry to make crazy, wonderful leaps. What appears to be a Yiddish folk tale moves, without warning, from the shtetl to the camps. An extremely creepy spider takes up residence in the guest room. On the day Nelson Mandela is released from Robben Island, the narrator finds herself in the hospital singing "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" to a dying patient. And this is not to mention the mothers of the sly title, not who you think they are. Read the poems for the stories, the wit and the wordplay, and then come back a second and third time for the nuance, the subtle allusions and the heartache.

-Michele Herman, author of Save the Village and Just Another Jack: The Private Lives

of Nursery Rhymes


Starter Mothers is electric, charged with joy, sorrow, empathy, and insight. With abundant language, this compassionate narrator takes on fertility, grief, female energy, and resistance. "Her voice roused the sleeping," she sings. As the collection unfolds, more and more rich wisdom, rooted in the here-and-now, spills onto the page: "Take your right hand, palm open / elbow bent, and slap your heart / for each of the six days of Creation."

-Lisa Bellamy, author of The Northway and Nectar


Starter Mothers is bold, full of personality, unapologetic-these poems are artistic, perspicuous, and a stunning exploration and questioning of what it is to be female. Pamela Wax's poems ask what it means to be woman without being mother-a question that pushes against definition, but her work also raises questions about women's invisibility and thus how women can make themselves heard. Wax makes herself heard. She creates a space, "a hush in which to ponder important and messy things."

-Katie Chaple, author of Pretty Little Rooms




Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .11 Inches (D)
Weight: .15 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Women Authors
Genre: Poetry
Number of Pages: 44
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Pamela Wax
Language: English
Street Date: August 18, 2023
TCIN: 1003352640
UPC: 9798888383315
Item Number (DPCI): 247-46-6977
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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