The Karma of a Woman

A brave work of searing honesty, beautiful both in its visual and poetic expression.

Barbara Pierson’s short memoir in verse is a powerful personal account of the actualization of her natural right to create and destroy life, and the imprints it left on her soul.

She wrote the poem in this book when she was 26 years old, after her second experience with an unwanted pregnancy. Her purpose, she explains, is neither to promote, condemn, nor argue what is right or wrong. It is, instead, a channe...