Stories to Read Aloud to Your Fetus - Softcover

Stefanescu, Alina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 163534302X ISBN 13: 9781635343021

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2017

Synopsis

In search of a new epistemology to address the fetus, poet Alina Stefanescu draws on her experience as an immigrant from a totalitarian country to probe the body's most ineffable borders. Her story-poems acknowledge the complexity of the female body-- and the fertile terrain between its possibilities and vulnerabilities. An intimate geography of the relationships between female bodies and their babies, whether bourne, born, or unborn, these are the tongues kept silent in polite social circles. These are the women no one talks about. These are our mothers, sisters, wives, neighbors, and lovers. This is life.

About this title

About the Author

Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and currently lives in Alabama with her partner and three opinionated mammals. A multiple Pushcart nominee, she is the author of Objects In Vases (Anchor & Plume, March 2016), Letters to Arthur (Beard of Bees, August 2016), and Ipokimen (Anchor and Plume, November 2016). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mark I Tried On, won the 2016 Brighthorse Prize. More online at www.alinastefanescu.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 163534302X
• ISBN 13: 9781635343021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110