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I thought I would share No Spare People by Erin Hoover (Author) which I received in exchange for this review.
No Spare People by Erin Hoover (Author)
No Spare People is a Poetry book featuring a mother -daughter but I would have to share with my friends that the Poems/ Story features a queer unpartnered parent by choice in the South which doesn’t bother me because its part of life but would turn off my best friend and keep her from reading the book which isn’t right but everyone has there own opinions of right and wrong.
The Poems can be hard to read and understand especially for children but there were a few I will be sharing with Charlie in his Homeschool Poem Class. Would you like to join us as we study the Poems? As for the picture on the book if you look at it one way it reminds me of a owl and another way it seems to be two people. What do you think the picture is?
About the book:
NO SPARE PEOPLE documents the joys and perils of a tiny mother-daughter family navigating life on the margins. From poems about finding autonomy as a queer, unpartnered parent by choice in the South to those chronicling a generation’s economic instability, Hoover rejects so-called “acceptable losses” stemming from inequalities of gender, race, and class. The book asks, what happens to the woman no longer willing to live a lie? How does language invent not only identity, but possibility?
“Erin Hoover’s second collection, NO SPARE PEOPLE, recalls to me the sobering effect of encountering Adrienne Rich’s work in the late ’80s. These poems deal in reality, eschewing the fantastic … This is a deeply intellectual and expertly wrought collection.”–Cate Marvin
“The poems in NO SPARE PEOPLE illuminate the injustices of income inequality, misogyny, womanhood and motherhood in America with an expanse of time and geography.”–K. Iver
“In the mother-daughter family of NO SPARE PEOPLE, everyone is essential–one parent, one child–with truly no one to spare. This collection explores the difficulties of such economy within our particular economy … Yet the poems do not give up, continually questioning the constraints of an American South.”–Jessica Jacobs
“These are hard poems in that they press far past the facile reductive binaries of good and evil, savior and saved, and into something–a lyric, a voice–that feels a little more complicated, a little more like our own world.”–Kaveh Akbar
Poetry. Women’s Studies.
About the author: Erin Hoover
Erin Hoover is the author of two poetry collections, Barnburner (2018) and No Spare People (forthcoming in 2023, Black Lawrence Press). Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry and Best New Poets, and in journals such as Cincinnati Review, Florida Review, Poetry Northwest, and Shenandoah. She lives in rural Tennessee and teaches creative writing at Tennessee Tech.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
