Anna V. Q. Ross plumbs motherhood, migration, and childhood and the cycles of violence and renewal that recur in each. These are poems of math homework and police siren, where a fox pops out of a fairy tale to dig up the back yard, NPR News spirals the evening carpool into memories of girlhood and trauma, and a city gas leak conjures xenophobic backlash against refugees. In poems of reclamation and warning, Flutter, Kick brings us to the center of our world-a place where in those days, we were fast and best, but didn't know it"-with a compassion learned of anger, memory, and joy"--
- | Author: Anna V.Q. Ross
- | Publisher: Red Hen Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 08, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 96 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
- | ISBN-10: 1636280455
- | ISBN-13: 9781636280455