All Its Charms

This is the third collection by Poulin Prize-winning author Keetje Kuipers. BOA also published her previous two books, Beautiful in the Mouth (2010) and Keys to the Jail (2014). Strong regional appeal: Kuipers is a well-known poet who has lived, worked, and performed throughout the Pacific Northwest, including much of Washington, Oregon, and Montana. She currently serves as the Senior Editor at Poetry Northwest, and her poems have a deep sense of place that fits well with the aesthetics of the Northwest School. HOT TOPICS: motherhood, same-sex marriage, queer sexuality, women's rights, nontraditional families. All Its Charms offers a unique, intimate look at motherhood and marriage from the perspective of a queer woman who chose to become a single mother and later married another woman. There is a hunger for books about queer motherhood as more LGBT women choose to become mothers, as evidenced by the popularity of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (Graywolf, 2016).