Elisa Albert books

After Birth

is from the poem Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer, copyright © 1982 by Bernadette Miller and published by New Directions.The line “Pay attention to what they tell you to forget” is from Muriel Rukeyser’s poem “Double Ode,” copyright ©1976 by Muriel Rukeyser. It can be found in Home/Birth: A Poem...