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Tables of Contents for Birth
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
First Stirrings
Genesis 1:28
3
2
Kate Daniels
First Pregnancy
5
1
Gary Metras
Letter in July
6
2
Elizabeth Spires
Heartbeat
8
1
Laurie Kutchins
Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child
9
1
Thomas Lux
First Stirrings
10
4
Rosemary Bray
Clearning the Pheasant in the Fifth Month of My Wife's Pregnancy
14
1
Harry Humes
You're
15
1
Sylvia Plath
Reading the New York Times
16
1
Jeanne Murray Walker
Before
17
11
Mary Grimm
Delphos, Ohio
28
3
Campbell McGrath
Eighteenth-Century Medical Illustration: The Infant in Its Little Room
31
2
Ann Townsend
Listening
33
2
David Mura
This Night
35
1
Cathy Song
Requiem
36
2
Lia Purpura
You Have the Body
38
17
Elyse Gasco
Notes from the Delivery Room
My Mother Gives Birth
55
1
Julianna Baggott
Transition
56
5
Toi Derricotte
from Still Life
61
6
A.S. Byatt
Women's Labors
67
2
Lee Upton
Notes from the Delivery Room
69
1
Linda Pastan
Giving Birth
70
14
Margaret Atwood
After Giving Birth, I Recall the Madonna and Child
84
1
Julianna Baggott
Delivering Lily
85
16
Phillip Lopate
Child of the Sun --- Gabriel's Birth (Sun Prayer)
101
3
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Birth Report
104
2
Stephen Dobyns
Waiting
106
7
Lisa Lenzo
Ancestral Lights
113
2
Deborah Digges
The First Day
115
2
Elizabeth Spires
How It Begins
117
1
David Mura
Holding Bernadette
118
2
Hunt Hawkins
Milk
120
18
Eileen Pollack
For Fathers of Girls
138
5
Stephen Dunn
The Welcoming
Coming Home from the Hospital after My Son's Birth
143
1
Jim Daniels
The Welcoming
144
4
Edward Hirsch
Shrinking the Uterus
148
2
Cathy Song
Her First Week
150
1
Sharon Olds
Babylove
151
4
Corinne Demas
The Man Who Would Be a Mother
155
1
Herbert Scott
from The Velveteen Father
156
7
Jesse Green
Apnea
163
1
Hunt Hawkins
Gas
164
1
Belle Waring
Changing Diapers
165
1
Gary Snyder
Babyshit Serenade
166
1
Alicia Ostriker
Sleep
167
12
Gary Krist
from Domestic Interior
179
2
Eavan Boland
Morning Song
181
1
Sylvia Plath
Sorrow
182
1
Ann Townsend
New Mother
183
1
Sharon Olds
The Waiting
184
4
Li-Young Lee
Menage a trois
188
1
Kate Daniels
Breastfeeding in Indiana
189
10
Jane McCafferty
March
199
2
Jim Daniels
First Summer
201
6
Laurie Kutchins
Now That I Am Forever with Child
Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight
207
6
Galway Kinnell
Brown Circle
213
2
Louise Gluck
Simple Joys
215
1
Quincy Troupe
Motherhood
216
1
Rita Dove
Propaganda Poem: Maybe for Some Young Mamas
217
6
Alicia Ostriker
Saul and Patsy Are in Labor
223
16
Charles Baxter
Gravity
239
1
Kim Addonizio
Orangutan Means Orange Man
240
2
Deborah Digges
Prayer for My Children
242
1
Kate Daniels
Now That I Am Forever with Child
243
2
Audre Lorde
Contributors
245
6
Permissions
251
6
Index
257