Eight Songs of [Mothering] & [Capacity]

Eight Songs of [Mothering] & [Capacity] delves into the demanding journey of raising children as a single mother in a society calibrated for two-parent families, where to be a single mother is seeded with stigma and shame. This collection revisits that marginal experience, decisions made in extremis, grappling with the challenges of premature adulthood, intertwined with intergenerational trauma. It is a call to the social condition that undervalues the profound role of mothering. The poems articulate the shame which became a process of unmothering, leading to states of hyper-productivity, and distracted and disturbed mothering, to justify the validity of being. The poems are apologies, lamentations, a cataloguing of survival and endurance.