Increase / Lia Purpura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Purpura, Lia, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pregnant women--United States--Biography.

Pregnant women.

Mothers--United States--Biography.

Mothers.

United States.

Pregnancy.

Childbirth.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 141 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, [2000]

Summary:

"Increase is Lia Purpura's chronicle of her pregnancy, the birth of her son, Joseph, and the first year of his life. She recounts her journey with the heightened awareness of a mother-to-be and through the eyes of a poet, from the moment she confirms her pregnancy as "a blue X slowly crosses itself, first one arm, then the other in the small white window of the test," through "the X of his crossed feet in sleep" as her child's world begins. Purpura's sensibility transcends the facts of personal experience to enfold the dramatically changing shape of a larger, complex world.".

"These lyrical reflections portray the rhythms of a new mother's life as it is challenged and transformed in nearly every aspect, from the individual emotions of wildness, loss, need, and desire to the outward progress - and interruption - of her work and activities. Increase offers us motherhood at an extraordinary pitch, recording, absorbing, and revisiting experiences from a multitude of angles."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0820322326

9780820322322

OCLC:

43366033