lithopaedion - Carrie Nassif

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Résumé :
LITHOPAEDION is a poetry collection both visceral and tender. Named after a greek term meaning stone baby, a lithopaedion is the result of an extremely rare condition in which the fetus of a failed ectopic or abdominal pregnancy cannot be reabsorbed by its mother's body...

Biographie:
Carrie Nassif (she/hers) is a queer poet, photographer, parent, and psychologist of the rural Midwest. Her poetry can be found in Concision Poetry Journal, The Comstock Review, The Gravity of the Thing, Pomona Valley Review, and Tupelo Quarterly; as well as anthologies such as Waves: A Confluence of Women's Voices online with the AROHO Foundation, and in Written Here and There: Community of Writers Poetry Review 2021.

Sommaire:
its tissues become calcified to prevent infection, sepsis, or death. Likewise, these poems consider the unspoken hardness of being mothered, the hazards of coming into motherhood, and the pains of mothering imperfectly. While embodying metaphors of intergenerational disconnection from a queer vantage point, this work investigates the human capacity for repair and our craving for vulnerability....