Reviewed in today’s book review, The Second Book, poet Deborah Garrison’s new book is about mother hood.

A Working Girl Can’t Win, Garrison’s acclaimed first book of poems chronicled the life of a working girl. Now Garrison, who is the poetry editor at Alfred A. Knopf, moves into another stage of life as she  starts a family.

In The Second Child,
Garrison explores every facet of motherhood  (“Sharp bliss in proximity to the roundness, /
The globe already set aspin, particular / Of a whole new life”).

BLURB: Sometimes sensual, sometimes succinct, always candid, The Second Child
is a meditation on the extraordinariness resident in the
everyday–nursing babies, missing the past, knowing when to lead a child
and knowing when to let go. With a voice sound and wise, Garrison
examines a life fully lived.

About the Author
  Deborah Garrison is the author of A Working Girl Can’t Win: and Other Poems. For fifteen years, she worked on the editorial staff of The New Yorker
and is now the poetry editor af Alfred A. Knopf and a senior editor at
Pantheon Books. She lives with her husband and three children in
Montclair, New Jersey.