Crescendo
by Paola Quintavalle
Buy on AmazonA visual and poetic celebration of the transition to motherhood, depicting the maternal body as a most ultimate source of creativity and strength.
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"That glorious strangeness is what Paola Quintavalle celebrates in Crescendo — an uncommon picture-poem about the science of pregnancy, evocative of Ursula K. Le Guin’s lovely insistence that “science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside [and] both celebrate what they describe.”"
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