{"product_id":"rumors-secrets-lies-poems-pregnancy-abortion-choice-kristine-snodgrass-pb-2022","title":"Rumors Secrets \u0026 Lies Poems Pregnancy Abortion Choice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRumors, Secrets, \u0026amp; Lies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a collection of narrative poems, prose poems, flash fiction ― stories about abortions, unplanned pregnancies, adoptions, and joyous births. 116 writers, including Naomi Shihab Nye, Ellen Bass, and Alicia Ostriker, tell their stories ― how women, and men, navigated this always-charged and emotional landscape before and during Roe v. Wade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eThis heart-felt collection was inspired by the recent Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022. The book was sent to the printer on Aug. 31, just two months later. Submissions arrived from all over the U.S., but also from as far away as South Korea and Israel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eThe book is divided into five sections: Rumors Secrets \u0026amp; Lies; Choice\/No Choice; Loss; Changes, Birth \u0026amp; Joy; and, Frontlines.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eExcerpts follow:\u003cbr\u003e\"In the late 1960s, girls just disappeared from high schools and were never seen again. One cocky boy would nod knowingly and say, Another victim, gone to the forests!\" ― Naomi Shihab Nye, from \"Rumors\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\"Monet, Cezanne, Pissarro, Vincent, waiting room walls \/ are all the same, framed Impressions looking at you. \/ Sarah is waiting, watching a waiting room clock forget, \/ holding, tightly, my hand with both of hers.\" ― Earl S. Braggs, from \"The Weight of Not Answering\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\"My blood contains the risk \/ of something missing, a malformation \/ of the head \/ ― or worse.\" Rebekah Denison Hewitt, from \"Karotype\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\"I would have been dead \/ in twenty-four hours, \/ had the doctor not given me \/ the cruel diagnosis \/ Not a baby, but a lethal weapon \/ ready to explode inside.\" Janet Yolen, from \"It Grew\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\"... still \/ she gave this child every intricate bone of both feet, \/ the hollow vertebrae, tiny liver, \/ lungs that fill with air for the first time \/ and begin, without a lesson, \/ bringing this world in and releasing it.\u003cbr\u003e― Ellen Bass, from \"The Human Line\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\"what is the womb, \/ but the notion that \/ you could replicate yourself?\" ― Fariha Tayyab, from \"Blood and Glass\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\"this baby won't come || I make peace with the birds || my body a branch left || now all sky || with the river I make peace || succumb to the eddy || I want this baby || from the moment I knew\" ― Karla Van Vliet, from \"Delivery\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\"and here she is \/ unbreathing on your chest, her skin so sheer \/ you can see her little blue heart slow its thump\" ― Kari Teicher, from \"Undone\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\"Try the word abortion in a poem \/ it sits, a boulder in the center of the page \/ the other words tiptoe around it \/ too nervous for conversation\" ― Nicolette Reim, from \"Pen in Hand\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pearl Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45498250297541,"sku":"OFG41025615","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/7660\/8453\/files\/s-l1600_278a00ca-9cd8-4070-8f19-d1e49dcb2936.webp?v=1769147702","url":"https:\/\/pearlpress.com.au\/products\/rumors-secrets-lies-poems-pregnancy-abortion-choice-kristine-snodgrass-pb-2022","provider":"Pearl Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}