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Cuttings explores a timeless relationship-a mother and daughter-from meditations on childhood, to adolescence and young adulthood, and finally toward marriage and contemplating motherhood. The mother's presence, a haunting in fits and bursts, pushes the daughter to reflect on what she was taught, and how she has grown. Accepting who she desires to become, yet resisting that difficult inheritance, the daughter must reckon with her mother's words, body and spirit. With an eye toward grace, Hannah Dow brilliantly considers what it means to implicate, to blame, to forgive.

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"""Womanhood, the lives of plants and animals, what binds and divides us . . . are all considered with a startling and sustained grace that makes these poems lustrous as pearls."" -Amy Gerstler, author of Scattered at Sea, National Book Award Finalist ""Cuttings derives its substance from the hope that a loving life can be lived in a troubled world . . . what's won seems hard-won. It seems real, not fabricated. And what a rare pleasure that is."" -Michael Ryan, author of New and Selected Poems, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award"

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Hannah Dow is the author of Rosarium (2018). Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Image, The Southern Review, Pleiades, The Best American Poetry blog, and elsewhere. She received the Cream City Review Summer Prize in Poetry, selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, as well as awards and scholarships from Bread Loaf Orion and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Hannah lives in Bentonville, Arkansas, and is an Assistant Professor of English and creative writing at Missouri Southern State University.

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