My Aunt’s Abortion by Jane Rosenberg LaForge

“My Aunt’s Abortion, a collection of essays and poetry by Jane Rosenberg LaForge, treks the landscape of family. It is an uneven terrain of uncertain memories and mundanities, old and discovered traumas, the vagaries of circumstance and outcome and loss—the unattainable, whether dreams or abortion. Reading My Aunt’s Abortion is like cloud gazing, finding imagined towers, vacuum cleaners, a mother’s “rotting teeth and gums,” racing cars soaring into the twilight abyss. As you travel through My Aunt’s Abortion, be prepared to wander Jane’s fluid language in search of “another child in the grip of the gods.”

K-B Gressitt, publisher, Writers Resist

“Arcane mid-‘60s abortion laws, her aunt’s illegal operation, the wreckage suffered by the whole family—Jane Rosenberg LaForge’s true story deftly details what happens when a person’s private decision about her body is made public. After Jane’s aunt decided to chance an illegal abortion, it was botched and she carried the fetus to delivery of a still-born. This is the horror we can anticipate from the 2022 Supreme Court. Through her riveting memoir enhanced by strong imagistic poems, LaForge commands we listen. As she writes in the opening poem, ‘Disclosure,’ due to rekindled politics, we once again “move on to the scars.” Her book is a must-read for women who face abortions, and politicians and voters who can protect free choice.”

Lee Woodman, poet and author, ARTSCAPES

Jane Rosenberg LaForge is the author of three previous collections of poetry; four chapbooks of poetry; a memoir; and two novels. Her 2018 novel, The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War (Amberjack Publishing), was a finalist in two categories in the Eric Hoffer awards. Her 2021 novel, Sisterhood of the Infamous (New Meridian Arts Press), was a finalist for regional fiction (west) in the National Indie Excellence Awards. She has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poetry and short fiction; and the Best of the Net for poetry.

Book Information:

· Paperback: 92 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-417-8

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