{"product_id":"9781571315373","title":"Day of the Child: A Poem","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Arra Lynn Ross, a tender, generous, and generative extended poem centered on the experience of parenthood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What is learned? I’ll return for my son; \/ at school, at three thirty-eight, bells will ring \u0026amp; run \/ days over years.” Using unpredictable syllabics, rhyme, and syntax, \u003ci\u003eDay of the Child \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the sensation of altered time that accompanies a child’s growth. Seasons come and go. A schoolboy becomes a dreaming infant becomes a five-year-old exploring metaphor for the first time becomes an ultrasound image, “a frieze on screen.” A mother cycles through her own often dissonant identities: “soother, watcher, blame-taker.” And both mother and child assume another, significant role: artistic collaborators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor\u003ci\u003e Day of the Child \u003c\/i\u003eis a poem co-created by child and mother, offering a space in which each’s stories, thoughts, words—“unbound \/ by Time \u0026amp; time’s delineations”—tangle together. In which apartness—“Oh indivisible divisible,” the presence of another heart beating inside the mother’s own body—is continually negotiated. And in which the mother considers her place as intermediary between the child and the world: her protection, her complicity, her joy. Its octave pairs ebb and flow, expand and contract, producing a portrait of raising another human as refracted as it is circular, just as a river “breaks into many suns, the sun.” For, as the child asserts, “love is a circl[e] round \/ as a Ball.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging the notion that parenthood is not itself a poetic endeavor, \u003ci\u003eDay of the Child \u003c\/i\u003emakes of childrearing “a refrain I reframed each day with new words.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370839707709,"sku":"9781571315373","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781571315373_p0.jpg?v=1771570527","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781571315373","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}