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Novel Presents: an Evening with Jessica Pulver
Novel Presents: an Evening with Jessica Pulver

Fri, Nov 08

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Portland

Novel Presents: an Evening with Jessica Pulver

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Nov 08, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Portland, 643 Congress St, Portland, ME 04101, USA

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May You Step Forward is a collection of poems about the experience of being the mother of a child named Leo who has Cerebral Palsy. Spanning a timeline of his traumatic birth to his early teens, the poems are full of the concrete challenges and triumphs of daily life (school buses, haircuts, leg braces) which are often one and the same. Set on New England hillsides, in pharmacies and cemeteries, the poems express the layering of guilt, frustration, grief, determination, fear and joy felt by both the poet and her son as they navigated the years of his childhood together.

Written entirely in second person, mostly in free verse but including a smattering of poems in form, the chapbook reads as a sort of extended prayer, containing despair, yearning, confession, and belief. Although the poems address Leo directly, and reflect a deep hope and care for his experience, they become…


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