Babies by Emily Toder Now Available!

Babies, a new book of poetry by Emily Toder is now available!

Just as it is said most toys are imitations of something adults use, a poem that toys with celebrated repetition and celebrates imitation of what passes for reasoning is intrinsically funny. Babies says it is written for a general adult audience and approved for mature audiences. It tells us as much as it can about baby adults, adult babies, nice babies, mean adults, up-to-date adults, recent adults, only children, toddlers, teenagers and in-betweeners. It admits it is all about the essence of life. Around the middle of the book a kind of rush of the love of trying to know about and write about babies reaches a crescendo of delightful whirling dervishness in love with all things brought about by babies. It is a good idea if you can do it to read this book without stopping, no breaks, no bookmarks, no dog-earing; start at the top and don’t stop until it stops. It’s possible. I couldn’t stop and I’m happy I didn’t. Just as every baby is, Emily Toder’s book is a rare, original, one of a kind.

—Dara Barrois/Dixon, author of Reverse Rapture

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