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Author_Margot Kahn
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Caregiving
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Childbirth
Climate
commitment
compassion
Contemporary poetry
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Domesticity
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existential
family
Female friendship
Feminism
fire
Friendship
fruit
gender
Gender roles
grief
growing up
Holocaust
identity
Jewish
Judaism
life
Lineage
loneliness
loss
Marriage
maturing
Midlife
motherhood
nature
Nature poems
Nature poetry
orchards
Parenting
peonies
piano
plants
plum
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poppies
pregnancy
Relationships
rural
seasons
shooting
suicide
time
trees
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780810148932
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A luminous poetry collection that weaves together nature, family ties, and memory
Born from a state of fragmented time, the poems in The Unreliable Tree call out the intimate feelings mothers so often fear to share. With a precise and tender eye, Margot Kahn tracks her early years of parenthood alongside the seasons of her family's orchard. As she chronicles the changes in her marriage, her friendships, and her own shifting identity, Kahn questions the risks we take for devotion and the labors we devote to love. These poems shine a light on the patience and perseverance required to care-for homes, for people, for heritage-and ultimately question the choices we make: to hold on to others around us, and to hold on to ourselves. Compassionate, unflinching, lyric, and raw, The Unreliable Tree portrays the world of early motherhood with humility and complicated beauty.
Born from a state of fragmented time, the poems in The Unreliable Tree call out the intimate feelings mothers so often fear to share. With a precise and tender eye, Margot Kahn tracks her early years of parenthood alongside the seasons of her family's orchard. As she chronicles the changes in her marriage, her friendships, and her own shifting identity, Kahn questions the risks we take for devotion and the labors we devote to love. These poems shine a light on the patience and perseverance required to care-for homes, for people, for heritage-and ultimately question the choices we make: to hold on to others around us, and to hold on to ourselves. Compassionate, unflinching, lyric, and raw, The Unreliable Tree portrays the world of early motherhood with humility and complicated beauty.
Margot Kahn is the author of the biography Horses That Buck and coeditor of two essay anthologies, This Is the Place and Wanting. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, The Kenyon Review, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.
