Description
A collection of poems from Kate Parfet, Milking a Duck is a visceral experience declared loudly through ideas of healing and trauma, power dynamics and autonomy, self-reckoning and being silenced, betrayal and trust. Carefully, as though through the crack of a shell, we are given an accounting of the process towards becoming a mother; an attempt to explore and understand the world through memory, loss, and moving forward. Parfet imagines a future just out of reach. Seemingly straightforward tasks prove more difficult than milking a duck. Such tangled emotions are quick to find refuge in the body: "invisible shapes hold their weight." While the collection is rooted in trauma, humor and tenderness ground each chapter in (new) life, death, and freedom? "onto crests burst open / cantering towards the sea."Recognizing mother stories as both universal and singularly unique, Parfet invites a group of artists to explore these complex realities through various visual mediums. Each work conveys an individual mother connection, hunger, or wound, bringing new dimension to the text.
ISBN 9798218147839
