$14.99
The poems of “what mothers withhold” are songs of brokenness and hope in a mother’s voice, poems of the body in its fierceness and failings. Elizabeth Kropf’s poems revel in peeling back silence, and invite us to witness a complicated and traumatic world that is also filled with love.
–Cindy Huyser, poet and editor, author of “Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems.”
With these visceral poems, poet and mother Elizabeth Kropf has composed a chant of the vocabulary of vulnerability. From fertility to conception to birth—or not—and into motherhood, Kropf’s recounting of her experiences compels the reader to enter and acknowledge the power of what mothers endure and withhold.
–Anne McCrady, author of Letting Myself In and Along Greathouse Road
what mothers withhold
by Elizabeth Kropf
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-393-8
2021
Elizabeth Kropf earned her Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Perelandra College and is widely published in literary publications, including The Texas Poetry Calendar, The Penwood Review, and Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature. A dream called her from California to Texas where she now lives with her husband and daughters. https://www.elizabethkropf.com/
elizabethrebeccakropf (verified owner) –
With clarity and tenderness, these poems enter into the experiences surrounding motherhood. They explore the journey to and through pregnancy, and the joys and apprehensions that nurturing children can bring. An enriching read.
Margie McCreless Roe, author of Call and Response and Flight Patterns
Amy L. Greenspan (verified owner) –
This collection of poems is a powerful testimony to the wide arc of emotions and experiences that can come with wanting to be, becoming, and being a mother. Ms. Kropf writes with unflinching honesty and vulnerability, and her work is both moving and thought-provoking.