Eating Her Young

Dr. Jackie Schoemaker Holmes became a mother and her world fell apart.

This collection of poetry chronicles both the disruption of identity and the disruption of motherhood that Dr. Jackie experienced from the moment her daughter was placed on her chest and the two struck up a relationship. The real, raw, visceral interrogation of the experience of motherhood that the author takes you through is like no other.

Dr. Jackie walks alongside you as you experience the highs and lows of what it means to be a mother in contemporary society and takes a no-holds-barred approach to the multifarious and sometimes monstrous feelings that accompany the postpartum period and beyond.