Her Womanhood of Mine Parenting Until just a few years

Until just a few years ago

Written by the Body moves from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archive to turn-of-the-century and late-twentieth-century fiction to documentaries

" --Garrard Conley

learns about her aunt's long-term secret relationship

from the little box with an M or an F on passports to the shockingly sudden way testosterone can adjust physical features

Her Womanhood of Mine Parenting Until just a few yearsHaley Hutchinson' s, Her Womanhood of Mine, is a chronicle of a girlhood painted by the tastes, pains, and folds of the body. It is a love letter to place, a yearning for the past, and an eventual understanding of the raw grittiness of existence. These poems sing with the blue messiness of coming into one's self, the growing and waning of relationships, and the appreciation for simplicity. Rich with experiences both familiar and nuanced, Her Womanhood