what mothers withhold

<p>The poems of what mothers withhold are songs of brokenness and hope in a mother's voice poems of the body in its fierceness and failings. Elizabeth Kropf's poems revel in peeling back silence and invite us to witness a complicated and traumatic world that is also filled with love.</p><p><strong> -Cindy Huyser</strong> poet and editor author of <em>Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems</em></p><p><br></p><p> </p><p><br></p><p>With these visceral poems poet and mother <strong>Elizabeth Kropf </strong>has composed a chant of the vocabulary of vulnerability. From fertility to conception to birth-or not-and into motherhood Kropf's recounting of her experiences compels the reader to enter and acknowledge the power of what mothers endure and withhold.</p><p><strong> -Anne McCrady</strong> author of <em>Letting Myself In</em> and <em>Along Greathouse Road</em></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>