Award-winning writer Cassie Premo Steele explores motherhood and creativity in this powerhouse collection of poetry. Steele invites readers into her living room for an intimate conversation about the very essence of the personal. What does it mean to be a woman, an artist, and a mother? These poems illuminate that question, allowing readers to find their own answers while travailing all that terrain at their own pace and from their own perspectives. Required reading for anyone interested in the interplay between physical and metaphoric birth, the meaning of creativity, and the definition of self.