Esther Ottaway

How could other parents understand she can't regulate, can't dress, screams in wind? Their girls touch down, their modules steady, small footsteps breaking the moon-sand's surface, their milestones cosmic miracles of the ordinary. We long for their basic okayness, their assumption that the whole team will walk on the moon, get to jump, twirl in the applause, treasure the video....

From the award-winning author of Blood Universe: poems on pregnancy comes a full-length collection of new poems: beautiful, poignant meditations on family and its origins, parenthood, love, and the loss of love. In Intimate, low-voiced, delicate things, Esther Ottaway delves deeply into the intricate emotions that bind families together and the tender, fragile nature of relationships. Through her evocative and...