Water in Every Room

You better be sitting down when you read Heather Brown Barrett's Water in Every Room because these poems will knock you off your feet-the imaginative and emotive energy crackles on every page as she writes about her metamorphosis into motherhood and the son she loves from bottomless depths. "Oh come / be our child, wind of change," Barrett cries in "Blue Moon," a resounding "Yes" to the stirring inside that will bloom her son and the water trail of poems that follow in myriad forms and styl...