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Wet Apples, White Blood

by (author) Naomi Guttman

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2007
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773532458
    Publish Date
    Mar 2007
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773578739
    Publish Date
    Mar 2007
    List Price
    $16.95

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Naomi Guttman's new poetry collection was inspired by the role of nursing in human evolution and culture. The first cycle of poems, "Wet Apples, White Blood," offers lyric glimpses into archetypes of breastfeeding women in history and myth. The dramatic action in the second cycle, "Galactopoesis," centers around the experience of a mother whose young child is hospitalized.

Galactopoesis is the medical term for the continued secretion and production of milk. It derives from the Greek radicals for 'milk' (galacto) and 'making' (poesis), which is also 'poetry.' In Wet Apples, White Blood, nursing, as a constant creative act dependent on the baby's demand, is a trope for the creative process and for questions of biology, psychology, and spirituality.

About the author

Naomi Guttman

's first book of poems, Reasons for Winter, won the A.M. Klein Award for Poetry. Her second, Wet Apples, White Blood, was co-winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing's Best Book of Poems for 2007. Raised in Montreal, she now teaches creative writing at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY.

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