{"product_id":"day-of-the-child-arra-lynn-ross-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 Arra Lynn Ross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571315373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/07\/2021","brand":"Arra Lynn Ross","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048248701183,"sku":"9781571315373","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a4b9f7a-bcc6-4b62-bb59-9f3f8a73ab54.jpg?v=1684994729","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/day-of-the-child-arra-lynn-ross-9781571315373","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}