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Thanks to @harperperennial for an advance copy of And Yet by Kate Baer, out November 8th! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This is the third poetry collection by Baer that I’ve read, so I was already expecting to enjoy it, but then one of the epigraphs was a lyric from The Highwomen and that really clinched it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Baer writes about womanhood in a way that feels hyperspecific (Sally Rooney references, anyone?) and universal at the same time. She writes in an accessible, conversational way about power and gender and marriage and motherhood and friendship, about what it means to exist as a (cisgender, white) woman in a capitalist, patriarchal society. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You may think that those classifications mean this collection isn’t for you, but I encourage you to pick it up anyway. I’m preaching to the choir when I ask this (94% of my followers on IG are women, and I would imagine the split on Goodreads and StoryGraph is similar) but why is it that still, men writing about the experience of manhood is for everyone, while women writing about the experience of womanhood is for only for women? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ID: On a white shelf lays a kindle displaying the ebook cover of And Yet. I’m reaching out to touch the kindle with one hand so that you can see my manicure. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CjX5N6xLX3F/