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Cream cover of “Smoothed Over with Feeling: poems for new parents,” with a large yellow flower and dark green stem.
Open poetry book with hands holding flowers beside “What it’s like,” which uses a crowded concert, stage, drumbeat and mosh-pit imagery to evoke shared effort and overwhelm.
Open poetry book with a face exhaling a bird beside “Notes out of the air,” a poem moving from absorbing and transforming experience to musical instruments, breath and strained connection.
Book back cover with a figure and looping arrow: “I KNOW THAT… ALL THE LOVE YOU GIVE… WILL FIND ITS WAY BACK TO YOU.”

Smoothed Over with Feeling Book

$12.00

Smoothed Over with Feeling Book

Giving birth, feeding a baby, sitting in the backseat on a long drive: Smoothed Over with Feeling makes room for small scenes from the beginning of parenthood.

Vanessa Hope Schneider’s poems and Carissa Potter Carlson’s drawings sit with the strength, uncertainty and continuing creativity of new parents. The book comes from People I’ve Loved.

The perforated back cover can become a thank-you note for someone who has offered support. It is a small detail that keeps the people around a new family in the picture.