Naomi Guttman's new poetry collection was inspired by the role of nursing in human evolution and culture. The first cycle of poems, "Wet Apples, White Blood," offers lyric glimpses into archetypes of breastfeeding women in history and myth. The dramatic action in the second cycle, "Galactopoesis," centers around the experience of a mother whose young child is hospitalized.
Galactopoesis is the medical term for the continued secretion and production of milk. It derives from the Greek radicals for 'milk' (galacto) and 'making' (poesis), which is also 'poetry.' In Wet Apples, White Blood, nursing, as a constant creative act dependent on the baby's demand, is a trope for the creative process and for questions of biology, psychology, and spirituality.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0773532455 9780773577169
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.G845
- LCCN Item number
- W48 2007eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (81 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00225540 (OCoLC)713186281 (CaOOCEL)433036
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Prayer 12
- ONE 14
- Because thrift is not always a virtue 16
- Daylight Savings 17
- Spring 18
- Equinox 19
- Black Forest 20
- Lot’s Wife 21
- Two Rivers, Montréal, 1669 22
- Accident at Windsor Station, Montreal, Saint Patrick’s Day, 1909 23
- Virtuoso 24
- X 25
- Summer Sublet 26
- For Rent 28
- Shadow 30
- Why we have lived so luckily 32
- Dream Pockets 33
- Sleeping Figures 34
- TWO 36
- Wet Apples, White Blood A CYCLE 38
- Mary’s Milk 38
- Mrs. A’s Vegetable Stand 39
- Milk Muse 40
- Mother Platypus 41
- Instructions for the Child in the Womb 42
- Inkling 43
- At the Tomb of King Tut’s Wet Nurse 44
- Angel Maker 45
- Medea 46
- On the Difference Between Boys and Girls 47
- Hera 48
- THREE 50
- Galactopoesis A CYCLE 52
- Wind 52
- Urgent Care 54
- Breather 56
- Ultrasounds 57
- Incident Room 58
- Ward 60
- Real Living 64
- The Mend 66
- Autumn Song 68
- FOUR 70
- Gestures of Living 72
- Naming the Children 74
- The Whelping 75
- Katie Flower 77
- Penguins at the Ecodome 78
- Foreign Exchange 79
- Day and Night 80
- Girl in the Butterfly House 81
- Amber Song 82
- Goose Bay, Prince Edward Island 83
- The Grass 86
- Notes 88
- Acknowledgments 90
