Day of the Child - by Arra Lynn Ross (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Day of the Child</i> ebbs and flows, expanding and contracting, reflective of the altered movement of time that passes through the tangle of motherhood and childhood.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From Arra Lynn Ross, a tender, generous, and generative extended poem centered on the experience of parenthood.</b> <p/> "What is learned? I'll return for my son; / at school, at three thirty-eight, bells will ring & run / days over years." Using unpredictable syllabics, rhyme, and syntax, <i>Day of the Child</i> captures the sensation of altered time that accompanies a child's growth. Seasons come and go. A schoolboy becomes a dreaming infant becomes a five-year-old exploring metaphor for the first time becomes an ultrasound image, "a frieze on screen." A mother cycles through her own often dissonant identities: "soother, watcher, blame-taker." And both mother and child assume another, significant role: artistic collaborators. <p/> For <i>Day of the Child</i> is a poem co-created by child and mother, offering a space in which each's stories, thoughts, words--"unbound / by Time & time's delineations"--tangle together. In which apartness--"Oh indivisible divisible," the presence of another heart beating inside the mother's own body--is continually negotiated. And in which the mother considers her place as intermediary between the child and the world: her protection, her complicity, her joy. Its octave pairs ebb and flow, expand and contract, producing a portrait of raising another human as refracted as it is circular, just as a river "breaks into many suns, the sun." For, as the child asserts, "love is a circl[e] round / as a Ball." <p/> Challenging the notion that parenthood is not itself a poetic endeavor, <i>Day of the Child</i> makes of childrearing "a refrain I reframed each day with new words."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for <i>Seedlip and Sweet Apple</i></b> <p/> "Situated between glossary and glossolalia, word and vision, the communal act of language and the singularity of inspiration, <i>Seedlip and Sweet Apple</i> reaffirms the tradition of American visionaries, even while reshaping that tradition into an innovative and dynamic lyric. Arra Lynn Ross raises the roof with her convocation of tongues. A pioneering collection of poems."<b>--D. A. Powell</b> <p/> "A creative and compelling rendering of a strange and charismatic leader. Arra Lynn Ross's poems catch the dangers and the challenges of this woman who heard God's whisperings, lost four children to early deaths, journeyed to the New World in 1744, used her body with others to warm a room with dance, and rejoiced in the sight of a deer or the pleasures of watching rosehip tea steaming in the sun."<b>--<i>Spirituality & Practice</i></b> <p/> "A work powerful in voice and craft . . . If you care about the value of our national literature, <i>Seedlip and Sweet Apple</i> is well worth the investment."<b>--<i>Feminist Review</i></b> <p/> <i>"Seedlip and Sweet Apple</i> marks the birth of a star. Radical and transgressive young poet and writer Arra Lynn Ross has made a miraculous text of narrative and speech fragments . . . to raise up Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, her ecstatic voice, energy, and vision. If, as Yeats promised, 'soul clap its hands and sing, ' here she is, on the page, in the ear: Ann Lee in the historical world, harmed and holy, brave, alive and in community, 'a woman sowing seeds at the break of day.'"<b>--Hilda Raz</b> <p/> "Arra Lynn Ross's powerful collection inevitably recalls Robert Peters's <i>The Gift to Be Simple</i> and she is no less penetrating of Mother Ann's psyche. But whereas Peters's stubby-lined, intense, physical style kindled fire, Ross's longer lines, occasional prose poems and narrative episodes, documentary interjections, and employment of voices other than Ann's feel broader, cooler, more rested in the Lord, at last."<b>--<i>Booklist</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Arra Lynn Ross</b> is the author of <i>Day of the Child</i> and <i>Seedlip and Sweet Apple</i>. She is a poet, essayist, and puppet worker whose work has appeared in <i>Passages North</i>, <i>Fourth Genre</i>, <i>River Teeth</i>, <i>Denver Quarterly</i>, <i>Poetry Northwest</i>, <i>Prairie Schooner</i>, <i>Birmingham Poetry Review</i>, <i>Antioch Review</i>, and the <i>Iowa Review</i>. She lives in Michigan.
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