“Book Descriptions: Childbirth and matrescence (or the process of becoming a mother) obliterated any previous notion I had about my sense of self and the scope of control I thought I had over my life. darkly + completely consists of multiple, exhaustive attempts at understanding my cocoon as I had built it as well as trying to determine the root of my desire to build a predictable, comfortable, but limited life next to the widest interstate in the United States.
I meditate on my inability to resist the overwhelming obsession with productivity in our culture that also eats away at any opportunity to process the disappointments in our lives and the despair within and around us. These essay poems explore the importance of maintaining selfhood outside of work and family but also about the cliche of feeling grateful and indebted to the familial, familiar love for my child who made me a mother and for my partner who had an equal role in building this life. This book navigates and negotiates with the inherently flawed nature of language and attempts to describe the intense, suffocating eclipse of a love that childbirth allowed me to experience.” DRIVE
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