What Kind of Woman, Kate Baer
What Kind of Woman, Kate Baer
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What Kind of Woman
Poems

Author: Kate Baer

Narrator: Kate Baer

Unabridged: 1 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/10/2020


Synopsis

An Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerA Goop Book Club Pick""If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer.""--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend.“When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed.” So ends Kate Baer’s remarkable poem “Things My Girlfriends Teach Me.” In “Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels” she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother’s cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom. In her poem “Deliverance” about her son’s birth she writes “What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?” Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate Bear proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. Her words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.

About Kate Baer

Kate Baer is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman, I Hope This Finds You Well, and And Yet. Her work has also been published in The New Yorker, Literary Hub, Huffington Post, and the New York Times.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenny on January 17, 2022

Raw and authentic words on being a woman, a wife and a mother.......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on November 11, 2020

Wow. I enjoyed this book of poems more and more as I went. I chose this book to review because I wanted to go outside of my comfort zone. I've been saying to myself these past couple of years that I want to read some poetry, but I never do. Part of my apprehension about picking up some poetry is tha......more

Goodreads review by Skyler on January 21, 2021

2 Stars Granted I'm not a big poet-head. Which is just now a term I made up to describe poetry readers but this missed the mark for me. There are maybe 4 poems in this collection that are interesting, beautiful, worthy of dissecting, discussing and perhaps even of being put on my skin permanently w......more

Goodreads review by Bree on August 25, 2020

"You can be a mother and a poet. A wife and a lover. You can dance on the graves you dug on Tuesday, pulling out the bones of yourself you began to miss." Once in a while, a book shows up on your doorstep & for millions of reasons that add up to you choosing to read it as soon as you rip off the wrap......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on November 29, 2020

Thank you Harper Perennial for the opportunity to read this collection! It is not often when you come across a collection of poems that just speak to you. What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer is a collection of poems broken up into three parts. Part one is being a woman. Part two is being a wife. Part thr......more