{"product_id":"11-09-2021-day-of-the-child-a-poem-arra-lynn-ross","title":"Ross, Arra Lynn: Day of the Child: A Poem","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMilkweed Editions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: November 9, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDay of the Child\u003c\/i\u003e ebbs and flows, expanding and contracting, reflective of the altered movement of time that passes through the tangle of motherhood and childhood.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom Arra Lynn Ross, a tender, generous, and generative extended poem centered on the experience of parenthood.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“What is learned? I’ll return for my son; \/ at school, at three thirty-eight, bells will ring \u0026amp; run \/ days over years.” Using unpredictable syllabics, rhyme, and syntax, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDay of the Child\u003c\/i\u003e captures the sensation of altered time that accompanies a child’s growth. Seasons come and go. A schoolboy becomes a dreaming infant becomes a five-year-old exploring metaphor for the first time becomes an ultrasound image, “a frieze on screen.” A mother cycles through her own often dissonant identities: “soother, watcher, blame-taker.” And both mother and child assume another, significant role: artistic collaborators.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDay of the Child\u003c\/i\u003e is a poem co-created by child and mother, offering a space in which each’s stories, thoughts, words—“unbound \/ by Time \u0026amp; time’s delineations”—tangle together. In which apartness—“Oh indivisible divisible,” the presence of another heart beating inside the mother’s own body—is continually negotiated. And in which the mother considers her place as intermediary between the child and the world: her protection, her complicity, her joy. Its octave pairs ebb and flow, expand and contract, producing a portrait of raising another human as refracted as it is circular, just as a river “breaks into many suns, the sun.” For, as the child asserts, “love is a circl[e] round \/ as a Ball.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChallenging the notion that parenthood is not itself a poetic endeavor, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDay of the Child\u003c\/i\u003e makes of childrearing “a refrain I reframed each day with new words.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39286929883159,"sku":"9781571315373","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/alr.jpg?v=1618008021","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/11-09-2021-day-of-the-child-a-poem-arra-lynn-ross","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}