{"product_id":"the-second-child-poems","title":"The Second Child: Poems","description":"Nine years after the stunning debut of her critically acclaimed poetry collection A Working Girl Cant Win  which chronicled the progress and predicaments of a young woman  Deborah Garrison now moves into another stage of adulthoodstarting a family and saying good-bye to a more carefree self.  In The Second Child  Garrison explores every facet of motherhoodthe ambivalence  the trepidation  and the joy (Sharp bliss in proximity to the roundness  \/ The globe already set aspin  particular \/ Of a whole new life) and comes to terms with the seismic shift in her outlook and in the world around her. She lays out her post-9\/11 fears as she commutes daily to the city  continues to seek passion in her marriage  and wrestles with her feelings about faith and the mysterious gift of happiness.  Sometimes sensual  sometimes succinct  always candid  The Second Child is a meditation on the extraordinariness resident in the everydaynursing babies  missing the past  knowing when to lead a child and knowing when to let go. With a voice sound and wise  Garrison examines a life fully lived.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44660263813173,"sku":"ByrdShop_1400063590","price":27.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1400063590_7e0fca78-2637-4acd-8032-e53650dbdff3.jpg?v=1770348381","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-second-child-poems","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}