Stories to Read Aloud to Your Fetus by Alina Stefanescu

“As a mother, there are two questions that occurred to me simultaneously upon seeing a fetal ultrasound 1) Who are you? 2) Who am I now? There is no way to ask these questions separately, no way to privilege the potential voice over the one it will replace. The woman versus the mother.​”​

I can say this unequivocally — that Stories to Read Aloud To Your Fetus is one of the best poetry book I have read in the last decade — or more.  Alina Stefanescu is a major talent and a new voice to rank alongside that of Anna Akhmatova, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton.

–Sue Brannan Walker, Poet Laureate of Alabama, 2003 – 2012, Professor Emerita, University of Southern Alabama and Publisher of Negative Capability Press.