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I Am My Mother's Disappointments is a book of poetry drenched in truth. Tracing time from Hood's childhood with her mother to her teenage years losing her mother to suicide to her current adulthood as she continues to live without her mother, this book explores the way in which grief can expand and bend time. The loss of a parent bringing out the sadness and vacancy left behind, while exploring the memories that we wish we could forget. I Am My Mother's Disappointments confronts the complicated relationship between the sadness of losing a mother and the sadness of living with a mother.

The conclusion to cult hits Girl and Dream SchoolAndrea Marr, freshly kicked out of college, retreats to her hometown of Portland, Oregon and takes a job at J.Crew. But her ambition to become a writer catches up with her and drives her to make the leap to New York, where she contends with the challenges and opportunities of the big city.

It starts with an email, an invitation: Eclipse and eclipse are parentheses around vivid attention. Treat this time as its own. Note changes. Make lists to catalog, and prevent erasure.1. These lists are containers, sometimes for broken-down things:a. debris, old electronicsb. mollusks (husks)c. cave echoesd. quadrants, to taste2. These lists are feasts, sometimes with others:a. seaweed and white fish, shrimp tempurab. breadc. olive oil from the middle / of the sea and east your apexd. tomatoes flecked with salte. eggplants, in afterthought bites3. These parentheses gather time, gently:a. my midnight: softb. the basket of an afternoon4. This map traces things:a. like roots1. and leaves 2. and rivers3. and 4. death and the moon, in shadow