The Wildness of Grief: Sarah Giragosian’s Mother Octopus
...mothering is entwined with dying throughout this wide-ranging volume, as birth and death are revealed as two sides of one leaf.
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Barbara Ungar
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Barbara Ungar’s sixth book, After Naming the Animals, addressing the sixth extinction, appeared in June 2024 from The Word Works, which also published Immortal Medusa and Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life. Prior books include Save Our Ship, which won the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press, and The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Poetry Prize. She has published poems and essays in journals such as Scientific American, Rattle, Salmagundi, Pedestal, Southern Indiana Review, and many others. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Bulgarian. She lives in Saratoga Springs, New York. www.barbaraungar.net