{"product_id":"mei-li-allison-a-history-pb","title":"Mei-Li, Allison: A History of Holding: Poems on Motherhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eThird Moon Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 11, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA History of Holding explores what it means to be a human while raising one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed by Ashlee Gadd (Create Anyway) as \"a book to savor, cling to, and gift to every mother you know,\" this poetry collection captures the complicated beauty of motherhood-the ache of exhaustion, the wonder of small moments, and the way time bends and blurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom desperate search histories to dancing in a sun-kissed kitchen, each poem is a mirror, an exhale, a recognition that motherhood is not only about giving life, but learning how to hold it all: our children, our memories, ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLyrical and unflinching, A History of Holding gives language to the beautiful and brutal work of becoming, and to the quiet truth that what we hold is never meant to stay the same.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44243657261079,"sku":"9798993423302","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/51H55YWkwmL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1770327696","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/mei-li-allison-a-history-pb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}