The New Life

<p><strong>FINALIST Foreword INDIES Book of the Year (2024)</strong></p><p></p><p>With fear joy ambivalence and wonder this braided collection of poems by Wendy Wisner explores motherhood through the lens of a fractured childhood and intergenerational trauma. As the past collides with the present Wisner moves through the intense years of early motherhood and marriage to the turmoil of raising children in a volatile violent world. Shot through with sensuality and sexual vibrancy <em>The New Life</em> grapples with the impermanence of life the feeling that all we love could slip through our fingers at any moment. Ultimately this is a book about healing and renewal-about reconciling past and present and forging a new life.</p>