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In her award-winning second book, Anna V. Q. Ross transforms motherhood into a lens, examining narratives of girlhood, migration, trauma, and inheritance. Compassing home and horizon, this tightly woven, image-rich collection plumbs the political within the domestic and traces the routes of the past within everyday life. A bruise becomes a flower and then a flag planted to claim an adopted land; the hull of a Viking ship becomes the fuselage of a plane carrying an immigrating mother home; the daily routines of carpools, math homework, and bedtime stories are interrupted by memories of abuse and reports of school shootings and environmental collapse. But at heart, these are poems of reclamation, reminding us that “in those days, we were fast and best, but didn’t know it.” Wary and watchful, never resigned, Flutter, Kick maps the spaces for compassion we carve in a dangerous world.

ISBN-13: 9781636280455

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Red Hen Press

Publication Date: 11-08-2022

Pages: 96

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

Anna V. Q. Ross’s previous poetry collections are If a Storm and the chapbooks Figuring and Hawk Weather. Her awards include the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry, the New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry, and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work appears in Harvard Review, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and other journals. Anna is the poetry editor for Salamander and teaches at Emerson College. She lives with her family in Dorchester, MA, where she runs the performance series Unearthed Song & Poetry and raises chickens.

Table of Contents

House 11

Self-Porcrait as Girl 12

Anxious Talker 13

Almost a Mothering 15

Self-Portrait as Smaller Moon 17

Journey 18

Milk Teeth 20

Self-Portrait with Alternate Ending 22

Back Porch Aubade 24

Real Life 25

Arithmetic 27

Causes Unknown 28

All Hallows 29

Self-Portrait Without Wings 30

Passenger Pigeon 31

What is the Poem 35

Fugue 37

Not if, but when, 40

Thirteen 43

Self-Portrait at Tree Line 44

Explaining Tampons to My Son 45

Wrestling With Gods 47

At North 49

Pastoral 51

She threw herself upon the coffin 53

Self-Portrait with Refrain 55

Utility Report 61

The Crossing 63

Studies Show 64

Not Near, But Far 66

Geography Report 67

Self-Portrait as Invasive Species 69

Fence 71

Hypothesis 75

After All 77

The Naturalist's Report 79

Self-Portrait as Fox in Daylight 80

My son hands me the Family Letter About This Unit 81

The Algorithm Thinks I Need a Girdle 83

Heaven Knows 84

Self-Portrait Instead of Engine 86

At Collinsville Bridge 87

Self-Portrait with Washing Machine 88

One Time 90