Jackie Schoemaker Holmes, PhD

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The day my world fell apart
My journey of putting it back together
Poems for Mothers postpartum

This collection of real, raw, and unflinchingly honest poetry chronicles both the disruption of a singular identity and the disruption of motherhood that one woman experienced the moment her daughter was born and her life fell apart.

It’s like I was splayed open and seen for all the versions I’ve been, am, have yet to be, and tried to hid, both in and outside of ‘Mom’.

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This collection of poetry chronicles both the disruption of identity and the disruption of motherhood that Jackie Schoemaker Holmes experienced from the moment her daughter was placed on her chest and the two struck up a relationship. The real, raw, visceral interrogation of the experience of motherhood that the author takes you through is like no other.

Jackie Schoemaker Holmes, PhD walks alongside you as you experience the highs and lows of what it means to be a mother in contemporary society and takes a no-holds-barred approach to the multifarious and sometimes monstrous feelings that accompany the postpartum period and beyond.

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