Forty Poems* for Forty Pounds

<p><strong>Poems to be read by the refrigerator light...</strong></p><p>After battling food weight and self-esteem issues for years Trish Dougherty a poet mother and graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English in Middlebury VT decided to employ her strengths of self-perception humor and the written word to wrestle her demons to the ground. <em>Forty Poems for Forty Pounds</em> is for anyone who has struggled with self-worth through their relationship with food. While touching upon the shame of diets the pressure of media shaped expectations and self-love <em>Forty Poems for Forty Pounds </em>also weaves the constant of weight as self-reflection into all aspects of life from looking at the stars to the shaping of “tall and slender” pottery. <em>Forty Poems for Forty Pounds</em> is an engaging collection of poignantly vulnerable humorous and insightful poems that will remind anyone who endures the similar daily whispers in their head that they are not alone and that self-love and acceptance is a choice for the “now” and not a reward to be earned “some day”.</p>