Things Hard and Lovely

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THINGS HARD AND LOVELY is a collection of poems about motherhood, identity, time, and fragility spanning a decade spent witnessing and reflecting on the mundane miracles of life."Tender, evocative, and unafraid."--Kate Baer, 3x New York Times bestselling author of What Kind Of Woman, I Hope This Finds You Well, & And Yet"THINGS HARD AND LOVELY maps a raw, unguarded place between tough cynicism and vapid optimism, where mothers must live. This collection is a beautiful testimony to desperate love and steadfast fear, a fragile history of a woman's fragmented but unbreakable heart. While mothering moments are familiar, Curtin's fresh angles kept on showing me something unexpected. So even when I was saying "yes, yes, it is that way, " I was turning her new metaphors in my mind." --Lydia Netzer, author of the New York Times Notable Book, SHINE SHINE SHINE"The level of resonant detail in Curtin's poetry is breathtaking--descriptions of moments, both grand and mundane, that perfectly encompass the emotional melting pot of pride, love, terror, hope, and gratitude inherent in parenting. THINGS HARD AND LOVELY is lovely indeed, and hard in the same way as a diamond--compressed by pressure into something stronger and more beautiful." --Audrey Burges, author of The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone"THINGS HARD & LOVELY offers readers an intimate glimpse into a household teetering between creation and chaos. The joys, worry and exhaustion of mothering reel through this collection like a kaleidoscope of bright gems we seek, but 'learn to love the absence/of light.' A glimpse into 'a wild molten love' of mother, wife, and daughter, these poems sing their way into the world barefoot and breathless. At its core we see the dichotomy--a quiet son we wish to keep gentle and a daughter, a blaze of wildfire we wish to let spark--but fear the flame. Just like Curtin calling to us from the edge of each poem, here I am, mother, yes, but oh, so much more. You'll turn to these poems again and again just to relive the fleeting moments of everyday nurturing captured in a viewfinder you'll click through with awe."--Kindra McDonald, author of Teaching a Wild Thing, In the Meat Years and FossilsPoetry. Women's Studies.