Whiny Baby

Julie Paul

Whiny Baby
Format
Paperback
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Country
CA
Published
15 April 2024
Pages
120
ISBN
9780228020745

Whiny Baby

Julie Paul

Chomping / champing / championing / churlish / ... / There's a wolf at the door / that looks exactly like me

Who is the "whiny baby" in this book? Rather than calling names or hurling insults, the candid poems in this collection most often implicate the poet herself.

Expansive in form and voice, the poems in Julie Paul's second collection offer both love letters and laments. They take us to construction sites, meadows, waiting rooms, beaches, alleys, gardens, and frozen rivers, from Montreal to Hornby Island. They ask us to live in the moment, despite the moment. Including a spirited long poem that riffs on the fairy tale "Three Billy Goats Gruff," these poems are like old friends that at once console and confess. They blow kisses, they remember, and they celebrate the broken and the lost alongside the beautiful.

At turns frank, peevish, introspective, and mischievous, the poems share sincere and intimate perspectives on the changing female body, our natural and built landscapes, and the idiosyncrasies of modern life. Whiny Baby calls on us to simultaneously examine and exult in our brief time on earth.

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