Baby Schema by Isabel Galleymore
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024 celebrity These poems start out ostensibly

These poems start out ostensibly about coherent subject matter and then artfully disintegrate

in all its formal elegance

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You’d think at first that they were just playful but they’re quite fierce and they open doors of varying sizes into frightening aspects of reality

Baby Schema by Isabel Galleymore<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> celebrity These poems start out ostensibly'Trees crawling with babies, babiesdarting through the skyor buoyed by thermal vents, babiespainted with false eyes' ('Fable') In Isabel Galleymore's second collection, the adorable other is not just an imagined future child, but also a tree frog, a weather worn statue and often the speaker herself, who dreams of quitting adulthood and an endangered world. 'Mother Earth' is less an entity to be revered than a command to care giving. Lyrics and