Mother of 0 by Vanessa Ogle

These poems are extraordinary, at turns touching, funny, and always memorable. In Mother of O, Ogle takes us on a journey through what it means to be a mother’s daughter. These poems are searching, transforming the ordinary—apples, cattails, dolls—into the most essential questions: who are we in relation to those we know? And, even more so, how do we make sense of the love we receive when it looks, sometimes, so unlike love?

–Christine Degenaars, poet