Elizabeth Ross

After Birth Elizabeth Ross

A poetic primer on mothering and motherhood, ?After Birth?is unflinching in its celebration of new life. Proffering poems that are both alchemical and personal, Elizabeth Ross taps into the contradictions of creation ? joy, distress, lassitude ?all while her speaker tenderly hovers, like Nosferatu, over newborns.?After Birth blood[ies] the word, ? and marks Elizabeth Ross as a writer to watch