What It Is Is Beautiful: Honest Poems for Mothers of Small Children
Poems that capture the jumble of emotions inherent in motherhood: delight, guilt, resentment, and gratitude.

Writing from the laundry-laden trenches, Sarah Dunning Park shares nineteen spot-on poems about mothering small children. Her poetry captures the jumble of emotions inherent in motherhood: delight, guilt, resentment, and gratitude.
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What It Is Is Beautiful: Honest Poems for Mothers of Small Children
Poems that capture the jumble of emotions inherent in motherhood: delight, guilt, resentment, and gratitude.

Writing from the laundry-laden trenches, Sarah Dunning Park shares nineteen spot-on poems about mothering small children. Her poetry captures the jumble of emotions inherent in motherhood: delight, guilt, resentment, and gratitude.
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What It Is Is Beautiful: Honest Poems for Mothers of Small Children

What It Is Is Beautiful: Honest Poems for Mothers of Small Children

by Sarah Dunning Park
What It Is Is Beautiful: Honest Poems for Mothers of Small Children

What It Is Is Beautiful: Honest Poems for Mothers of Small Children

by Sarah Dunning Park

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Poems that capture the jumble of emotions inherent in motherhood: delight, guilt, resentment, and gratitude.

Writing from the laundry-laden trenches, Sarah Dunning Park shares nineteen spot-on poems about mothering small children. Her poetry captures the jumble of emotions inherent in motherhood: delight, guilt, resentment, and gratitude.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781933339597
Publisher: The Well-Trained Mind Press
Publication date: 04/15/2013
Pages: 42
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Sarah Dunning Park lives in rural Virginia with her husband and their three children. She is a freelance illustrator, mapmaker, and poet.

Table of Contents

Introduction v

Welcome to Facebook 1

Obstacle Course 2

Looking Forward to a Lanyard 5

Four-Year-Old Ninja 7

Ode to Our Minivan 8

The Trouble with Grass 10

IRL 11

Keeping the Peace 14

Book Learning 16

Already but Not Yet 18

Dinner at Home 20

Night Rummaging 22

Their Eyes All Aglow 24

Rx 26

Let There Be Yes 28

Trio 30

Mom Jeans 32

A Spring Issue 34

What It Is Is Beautiful 37

About the Author 41

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