Gold Winner in Realistic Poetry, Human Relations Indie Book Award.Poetry Winner, 2023 San Francisco Book Festival.5-Star Readers’ Favorite.In "Birth of a Daughter," Samantha Kolber deftly reveals the private world of pregnancy and birth—the middle of the night and light of day worries about safety, connection, and intimacy, weighing what shifts, writing, “I am marked. I am one becoming two, becoming one / again…my body deceives me.” Indeed, these poems are brave in their accounting of the pregnant, birthing body, the realities of mothering, and the territory we enter—“oh, these worlds we are now / you and I.” Dailiness and milestones merge here, bringing us on a journey that is part emotional travelogue, part wonder, part weighing of generations and of our times, and part arrival at the precise awareness that, “I am witness. I am mother.” Kolber’s voice is an important one, honoring what is often kept hidden. — Kerrin McCadden, author of "Keep This to Yourself"
