The Song Of The Whole Wide World On Motherhood, Grief, and Poetry

<p><strong>An extraordinary memoir of anticipatory grief, seventy-two minutes of life and a silent maternity leave, from artist and academic Tamarin Norwood.</strong></p> <p>A few months into pregnancy, Tamarin Norwood learned that the baby she was carrying would not live. Over the sleepless weeks that followed, Tamarin, her husband and their three-year-old son tried to navigate the unfamiliar waters of anticipatory sorrow and to prepare for what was to come.</p> <p>Written partly during pregnancy and partly during the silent maternity leave that followed, <em>The Song of the Whole Wide World</em> is an emergency response to grief held somewhere between the womb, the grave and the many stories that bind them: stories drawn from medical science, poetry, liturgy, vivid waking dreams of underwater life, and knowledge held deep within the body.</p> <p>This profoundly moving and intimate account offers a lyrical and fearless meditation on birth, death, and the possibilities of consolation.</p>