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This book was originally conceived as a feminist gift for baby showers. Feminist academics are familiar with the wealth of maternal feminist scholarship that has been produced over the past five decades, much of it by Demeter Press. However, new generations of mothers are born all the time. In the spirit of the Barbie movie, this book is intended to provide a gentle entry point for those new to feminist scholarship, and also an enjoyable and invigorating emotional experience for those who are more familiar with motherwork and maternal feminist thinking. This book invites readers to step lightly into a transformative realm where the conventional narratives of pregnancy, motherhood, and femininity are defied, reshaped, and celebrated. In response to decades of limited portrayals of pregnant women and mothers as merely ?good, ? ?bad, ? or ?monstrous, ? this anthology intervenes with a diverse array of contributions from scholars, artists, activists, and those who have lived the journey of motherhood. It brings forth a colourful mosaic of perspectives that push beyond the confines of societal norms, presenting images, writings, and creative expressions bursting with authenticity and power. This anthology is an affirmation, a celebration, and a transformative journey that invites all to join in reframing the pregnant body and the lived experiences of motherhood, and in to deeper engagements with maternal feminist writing and thoug

Rotten Perfect Mouth is a wonderfully fresh first book by a poet with an intuitive ear for colourful, musical language. The poems are loose enough for the reader to flop down inside and stay awhile. They are a little goofy, personal, confessional, noisy, nostalgic, and maybe a little bit broken. They often contain boats, boys, and Toronto (street names and railroad tracks, dives and parks and kitchens) because those are the sorts of things Eva Hd is in love with. In Rotten Perfect Mouth, readers will discover a writer with her heart on her sleeve and her hand on her pen, capturing the world around her with startling immediacy.

In Ghost Walk, Anton Pooles develops a mythology of self in order to give substance to his undetermined origins. He does so through the lens of parable in poems that present strange creatures and uncanny phenomena, positing that "all children know the orphanage is alive." Both spare and dreamlike, Ghost Walk is a poetic triumph that manifests identity through art.

The Twisted Gardens/Les Jardins Tordus is the exploration of an inverted creation, not that of the light that was, but that of the darkness in which everything exists. It is a journey through a territory of birth and viscera, animals and desire, spirits and metal. Written simultaneously in both French and English, Dyens searches for singular emotions and unique metaphors in the folds of two intertwined languages, examining how words both unleash and imprison our humanity. The Twisted Gardens/Les Jardins Tordus is also an experiment in virtual reality (available on his website) where sorrow and metaphors become a world, a territory, a literal journey.