Brief History of Accidental Inventions, Volume 47
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- ISBN 9781680034776
- Weight: 170g
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Texas Review Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A Brief History of Accidental Inventions explores the emotionally fraught territory of pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood. By equal measures harrowing and humorous, the collection chronicles the speaker's freefall into postpartum depression against the backdrop of American gun culture and the repeal of Roe v. Wade. The poems peer keenly into texts from Kristeva to Kim Kardashian's Instagram account as the speaker searches for clarity in her new role as a mother. With a voice both lyrical and brash, Craft confronts challenges of embodiment and violence alongside the overwhelming experience of maternal love.
21st Century Poets, No. 47
Dorsey Craft is the author of A Brief History of Accidental Inventions, Plunder (Bauhan 2020), and two chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Ph.D. program for Creative Writing at The Florida State University, Craft teaches at the University of North Florida and serves as Assistant Poetry Editor for Agni.
