Mother Country --poems by Elana Bell

 Nonfiction / poetry

BOA Editions, Ltd

2020, First Edition

Paperback, 84 pages

5 Stars

 

This is a perfect gift for mothers, and daughters of mothers. Elana Bell describes wanting and miscarrying children, and finally, carrying and birthing a beautiful child. She tells about her mother, and the web of life holding them together. How they interacted. These poems are by turns sad, funny, and every emotion in between. And the last poem, After Birth—how many mothers have sung that same song? I don’t think the words have changed all that much, either.

 

There are poems in this book worth reading over and over again. If you have lost an unborn child, you will find understanding in this book, these words. If you have birthed a healthy child, you will find sympathy in this book for she truly understands how your life has been turned upside down and pulled inside out as no one but another mother can truly understand.