{"product_id":"a-daughters-work-is-heartless-by-nature-9781635349856","title":"A Daughter's Work Is Heartless by Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Caledonia Kearns\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brave and evocative meditation on motherlove, which considers how we rebuild ourselves after loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaledonia Kearns' first collection of poems, published at 49, is an attempt to meet Muriel Rukeyser's challenge, \"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?\/The world would split open\". Kearns' poems tell the story of an ordinary woman raising a daughter as a second-generation single mother, as she recreates herself after marriage, negotiates lovers lost and found, and navigates the quotidian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Kearns' childhood in Dorchester, Massachusetts (\"the streets of that other city\/were so quiet it was always a lonely dark\") to her daughter's childhood during the first wave of gentrification in Brooklyn (\"This is Brooklyn now.\/ The antenna factories across the street are long gone\"), it is a deeply urban story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in four parts, Kearns begins--\"Coming from where I do\/there was no choice but to bet on the filly.\" She moves on to explore the reconstruction of the self after the end of a marriage and the search for connection. The collection ends with a reckoning--her daughter's depression and hospitalization before she leaves for college: \"I don't want to say\/sometimes my daughter wants to die\/but if I don't there's no saving her\/sometimes my daughter wants to die.\" Along the way her daughter's voice infuses the occasional commentary: \"How you think\/you fucked me up\/is not how\/you fucked me up.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClear-eyed and persistent, the virtue of \"A Daughter's Work Is Heartless by Nature\" is its straightforward, accessible lyric, its relentless search for beauty in the day-to-day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46457284853911,"sku":"9781635349856","price":1380.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781635349856.webp?v=1769181119","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-daughters-work-is-heartless-by-nature-9781635349856","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}