Milk Teeth (Paperback)

What happens when one motherhood begins just as another is lost?

In a world that glorifies motherhood and shuns grief, Milk Teeth explores the visceral collision of becoming a mother while mourning one. Told through a hybrid form as fragmented and nonlinear as grief itself, this bold collection reclaims story from silence and reshapes the narrative of maternal identity.

Navigating postpartum depression, complex grief, and the ache of “secondary losses,” Milk Teeth challenges the myth of the maternal monolith. With lyrical urgency and structural innovation, the author exposes the systemic forces that shame, silence, and isolate women―especially in their most tender and transformative moments.

At once a love letter to mothering and a lamentation of loss, Milk Teeth is a raw, necessary contribution to the conversation on grief, memory, and the power of telling our truths.

Rayya Liebich is a writer and educator of Lebanese and Polish descent. An activist from grief to Greenpeace, Rayya is devoted to the tools of poetry and non-linear forms of nonfiction to transform loss and to tell authentic stories. She is the author of three chapbooks: Tell Me Everything, Khalas/Enough and Litany of Words I Cannot Read and a poetry collection, Min Hayati, published by Inanna Publications.