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In her third collection (after I Hope This Finds You Well), Baer offers a reality check on parenting and relationships, presenting the exhaustion of long days with children and the weight of their needs: "God help me the children are calling!/ God help me there's nothing clean to wear." Yet the title poem closes with these striking line: "Little cauldron, little tender loon./ Take comfort in your bold heart/ where hope and fear are mingling." W...Log In or Sign Up to Read More