Each Bearing Out

by Rebecca Brock

Genres: Poetry

50 pages, Paperback

Published September 29, 2022

About the author

Rebecca Brock’s work appears in The Threepenny Review, CALYX, Mom Egg Review, Rust + Moth, Whale Road Review and elsewhere. She won the 2022 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest at The Comstock Review, judged by Ellen Bass, and the 2022 Editor's Choice Award at Sheila-Na-Gig. Her first chapbook, Each Bearing Out, was a semifinalist in the New Women's Voice Contest at Finishing Line Press and is now available from Kelsay Books. She has been a flight attendant for most of her adult life and is still surprised by this fact. Born in Idaho, she lives in Virginia. You can find more of her work at www.rebeccabrock.org.

Reviews

[Ruth Lehrer · Rating 5 out of 5]

“It’s true/ that sometimes I feel like a magician”
The poems in EACH BEARING OUT sing of mothers and sons, and of change in a shifting world. Brock zooms in on small people and small moments, on angry chickens and loving rocks. Her poems feel like a magical map; of the wildness of domesticity, of love and loss. I read her words and sit thinking “how little I knew of tigers, or falls, or the possibilities of little boys.” Looking forward to all of Rebecca Brock’s work to come.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not just for mother's, this collection of poems will make you laugh, cry, gasp, and sigh. Gentle, yet often heartwrenching, these poems surprise and delight.

[Jenna Korff · Rating 5 out of 5]

I savored and paused and sighed when reading these poems. Dogeared pages take me back to my favorites. Brock's imagery stays with me, challenges me, and soothes me.