Ovum by Christine Kalafus

Name: Ovum by Christine Kalafus
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Artfully understated.

–MARK DOTY | National Book Award recipient for poetry and author of What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

OVUM knows how to curtsy and bare its teeth at the same time. Deceptively sweet and unflinching, this poetic memoir threads together a girlhood shaped by diner booths, ballet, candy-coated illusions, and the loaded silence of generational trauma. Darkly funny, unforgettable — OVUM is nothing short of an awakening.

–RAE ROSE | Disability advocate and author of the poetry collection Bipolar Disorder for Beginners

Solid, important, and tenderly made.

–AMELIA MARTENS | Award-Winning author of The Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat

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Ovum

by Christine Kalafus

Paper

979-8-89990-308-3

2026

Inspired by portraiture — a stylized art form that represents containment — OVUM renders a simplified likeness of the speaker viewed through complex inheritances. If a book of poems is an assemblage, an egg is the origin. Traveling the oval, each poem a new beginning, each poem an attempt to regain what is lost, we arrive in a similar place to where we began, layered in asymmetry. A personal reckoning with a messy past, OVUM is a timely and timeless mix of intergenerational debt, safety, and the danger and durability of the female body.

Christine Kalafus holds a B.A. in interior design from the University of New Haven and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College. A cross-discipline in aesthetics, her writing explores the complexities of home.