How About Now by Kate Baer
Renowned poet Kate Baer returns with a bold and compassionate collection that confronts the march of time in a shifting world.
With her trademark candor and curiosity, Baer explores what it means to grow older, to release children into the wildness of their own lives, and to reclaim the ever-evolving self. Raw, luminous, and urgent, this collection channels Baer’s own journey to middle age into poems that are profoundly intimate yet resound universally, identifying the beauty, resilience, and fragility that arrive in every stage of life.
How About Now is a striking declaration of ongoing transformation and self-discovery. From the poet who has captured the heartbeat of the modern woman, this collection reaffirms Kate Baer’s place among the most vital voices of our era.
Review: Thank you to NetGalley for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review!
Can't be any less than 5 stars. I have been a huge fan of Kate Baer for years and was SO thrilled to score this advance copy of her latest poetry collection. I read this slowly, choosing to read one or two poems at a time and then sitting with them a while so it actually took me a few weeks to work my way through this.
From the mundane and every day to the profound, Baer has so many moments and piercing lines that made me dramatically clasp my hand across my heart and then furiously begin underlining on my kindle. Her words are the kind of thing you want to quote, to memorize, to repost on social media, to somehow share out into the ether to say look, here are words that provoked feelings that I also want you to feel! On everything from marriage, parenting, the state of the world, to being a woman and more, this book had so many beautiful takes.
This is the first of Baer's collections that I have read in their entirety so I can't speak to how it compares to other poetry collections by her, but I loved this and was so happy I was able to read it.
Stars: 5
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