I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom

I Wore This Dress Today for You, MomAuthor: Kim Dower ISBN: 9781636280233 Publisher: Red Hen Press Year first published: 26 Jul 2022 Pages: 128 Format: Hardback 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist! Kim Dower's poetry has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache," and by O Magazine as "unexpected and sublime." Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, her poems about motherhood are some of her most moving

Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be

this book ultimately isolates boredom as a source of optimism as well as a means of oppression

explains the origins of towns

organizational hierarchies

the author stresses that what is important in the poem-and what must be preserved in the translated poem-is the voice that emerges in the versification

And if she can't outwit a killer

Sir Marmaduke's intentions are not pure of heart

if we pay attention

Eiley is on the path to rediscovering who she is – until her village of Belbarrow gets an annoyingly self-important new fireman called Warren

seductive and psychedelically tinged portrayals of women offer a whole new slant on femininity

He is also troubled by the knowledge that the image in the painting will remain forever youthful and handsome while he himself will grow older and less desirable

revealing insights gained from several years of sustained research