A Brief History of Accidental Inventions, Volume 47
Poems
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Texas Review Press
Published:2nd Oct '26
Should be back in stock very soon
A Brief History of Accidental Inventions explores the emotionally fraught territory of pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood. By equal measures harrowing and humorous, the collection chronicles the speaker's freefall into postpartum depression against the backdrop of American gun culture and the repeal of Roe v. Wade. The poems peer keenly into texts from Kristeva to Kim Kardashian's Instagram account as the speaker searches for clarity in her new role as a mother. With a voice both lyrical and brash, Craft confronts challenges of embodiment and violence alongside the overwhelming experience of maternal love.
21st Century Poets, No. 47
"This book is full of gorgeous perversity. It refuses to bullshit readers with sentimentality—about pregnancy, motherhood, and simply existing as a body in the world. And the imagery of this world is surreal and morbidly funny: "Babies are so like guns: their heavy heads filled / with potential." And in this world, love and desire are never far removed from violence: "If I was a dove, I'd coast in low, make men
ISBN: 9781680034776
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 181g
68 pages