{"product_id":"if-there-is-a-butterfly-natalie-damjanovich-napoleon-9780645633757","title":"If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to become a mother in a world that both demands and diminishes that transformation? In her second full-length collection, award-winning Western Australian poet Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon turns this question over with uncommon tenderness, fury, and wit. If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears moves through the body and beyond it - through pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, endometriosis, miscarriage, infertility, and the fierce, exhausting love of raising a child - while never losing sight of the political forces that shape all these private experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormally inventive and emotionally wide-ranging, the collection deploys a remarkable arsenal of poetic modes: erasure poems drawn from What to Expect When You're Expecting, a ghazal, a pantoum, a sestina, prose poems, list poems, haiku, and avant-garde language poetry. Each form is chosen with precision - the erasures performing the very silencing they protest; the traditionally structured forms wrestling personal feeling into societal frame. The collection's centrepiece poem, inspired by a National Geographic account of Julia butterflies that drink the tears of Amazonian turtles, expands from ecological observation into a meditation on borders, loss, and the animal grief of motherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout, Damjanovich-Napoleon weaves the intensely personal with the urgently political: the Sandy Hook shooting lands in the same breath as butterfly kisses; abortion rights and heartbeat laws are held alongside the mess of new parenthood; a history of Western childbirth traces patriarchal medicine from ancient Greece to the present. The voice is at once fierce and vulnerable, funny and harrowing, always clear-eyed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn of woman, written for women, and essential reading for anyone who has ever tried to hold the world's complexity inside a single human life - this is a collection that does not flinch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0645633755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780645633757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Life Before Man\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.86h x 5.51w x 0.36d","brand":"Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001971319039,"sku":"9780645633757","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/if-there-is-a-butterfly-natalie-damjanovich-napoleon-9780645633757","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}