What Kind of Woman
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- Kate Baer (Écrivain)
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You can be a mother and a poet. A wife and a lover. You can dance on the graves you dug on Tuesday, pulling out the bones of yourself you began to miss.
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What kind of woman est un recueil de poèmes découpé en trois parties : being a woman, being a wife, being a mother. Si il parle beaucoup de mariage, ou du fait d'être mère, des situations que je ne connais pas, j'ai tout de même été absorbée par ses mots. Ils résonnent parfois comme des avertissements, d'autres fois comme des clés, ou des secrets qu'on nous livrerait.
L'écriture est plutôt directe, brute à la lisière du provocant, différente donc de la douceur de Rupi Kaur par exemple. Les plus grands adeptes de poésie diront peut etre que les mots sont trop simples, que c'est trop franc et pas assez imagé, mais c'est ce qui rend l'œuvre si accessible pour le plus grand nombre, et si percutante sans plus de détours.
Comme d'habitude avec la poésie je vous laisse avec quelques extraits pour puiser un peu de l'essence du recueil. Prenez soin de vous !
For now just remember how you felt the day you were born: desperate for magic, ready to love.
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Go to bed angry, wake up with a plan.
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Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels Unless you count your grandmother’s cake, hand mixed while she waits for the sound of your breath at the door. Or if you consider the taste of the sea, arms raised while you enter, salt at your lips. Or maybe you’ve forgotten the taste of a lover, your mouth on his skin. I ask—have you ever tasted the cool swill of freedom? The consuming rush of a quiet, radical love.
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When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met.
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A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a wife, and a woman.
“When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed.” So ends Kate Baer’s remarkable poem “Things My Girlfriends Teach Me.” In “Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels” she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother’s cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom. In her poem “Deliverance” about her daughter’s birth she writes “What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?”
Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. As easy to post on Instagram as they are to print out and frame, Kate’s words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.
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