An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A Goop Book Club Pick "If you want your breath to catch
and your heart to stop turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard Cup of Jo A stunning and honest
debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today and
the many roles we play - mother partner and friend. ?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 son'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 Bear proves herself to
truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. Her 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.
