White Hart Speaker Series: Sharon Charde, WHAT'S AFTER MAKING LOVE: Poems

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What’s After Making Love traverses a woman’s life from childhood to maturity with stops along the way for grief over a son’s death, conflicted emotions over a mother’s death, long love for a husband, betrayals of that love and realistic assessments of women’s traditional roles and the complications they present for achieving full personhood. Motherhood and marriage are strong thematic components of the collection, and the title’s question leads to a ruminative exploration of all the many possible answers that fall under its umbrella.

"In What’s After Making Love Charde offers a survey, an inventory of a life, with notions both practical and metaphysical...the hard work of living, made lighter by the magic of a book like this." - Alison Powell, author of Boats in the Attic and The Art of Perpetuation

"...a book of poems that thrums with the truth behind family, landscape, and memory." -Tyler Mills, author of The Bomb Cloud and Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets