NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Kate Baer's poems are so full of life—life as it is now that I can hear
them breathing. I loved this book.”—Emma Straub " How About Now is a balm a banister and a
battering ram. Her very best yet."—Catherine Newman The third full length poetry collection
from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman. Renowned poet Kate Baer
returns with a bold and compassionate collection that confronts the march of time in a shifting
world. With her trademark candor and curiosity Baer explores what it means to grow older to
release children into the wildness of their own lives and to reclaim the ever-evolving self.
Raw luminous and urgent this collection channels Baer’s own journey to middle age into poems
that are profoundly intimate yet resound universally identifying the beauty resilience and
fragility that arrive in every stage of life. How About Now is a striking declaration of
ongoing transformation and self-discovery. From the poet who has captured the heartbeat of the
modern woman this collection reaffirms Kate Baer’s place among the most vital voices of our
era.
