{"product_id":"mouths-open-to-name-her","title":"Mouths Open to Name Her","description":"\u003ci\u003eMouths Open to Name Her\u003c\/i\u003e, Katie Bickham's dazzling new collection, resounds with the intensity of new motherhood and confronts the relationship between mothers and their children, as she explores what it means to carry a child, even one conceived by rape or \"\"a child born from no place, from the flame of her forgetting, \/ bracket of blank pages. The boy, too, was destined to forget, \/ a bird from no tree branch, fish from no river, sword from no forge.\"\" Moving from the mid-1800s to 2017, these finely wrought poems grapple with how war, violence, and enslavement can disrupt our innocence. Bickham emphasises the power of creation in spite of this: \"\"Just picture them all,\"\" she writes, \"\"350,000 babies, together at once, \/ a city's worth of them in a row or a circle or wrapped \/ in an acres-wide blanket, an army of innocence yawning \/ their first breaths over the globe, and the promise \/ that it will all happen again, just like this, just as imperfectly, \/ no matter what, …\/ …tomorrow.\"\" \u003ci\u003eMouths Open to Name Her\u003c\/i\u003e calls forth a global sisterhood that extends from Charleston, South Carolina, and Shreveport, Louisiana, to Nice, France; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and the Serengeti District, Tanzania.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807502877016,"sku":"9780807169872","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807169872_31c71306-14b5-44f2-a1d3-036f88789b57.jpg?v=1778679075","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mouths-open-to-name-her","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}