And You Become: Poems for My Daughter

i read
that motherhood is soul
outside the body

like Plato, all of us
wandering earth
for ourselves

We live in a new era of mothering.

In 2020, millions of women moved through pregnancy, birth, and new motherhood cocooned in ambiguity and disconnection. Jamie Wolff was one of those women.

In And You Become, Jamie captures the intimacy of new motherhood paralleled by a global pandemic, evoking overlapping emotions and ways of being. She offers 40 poems that depict a journey through uncertainty, fear, beauty, surrender, and transformation, ultimately arriving at some version of moving forward together as mothers and as a world forever changed.

And You Become holds the sacred unknowing that is new motherhood amplified and hushed by an unrecognizable reality. It is for parents - especially those who became parents during COVID-19. It is also for anyone who catches in it even the tiniest shard that, for whatever reason, feels like a dream once lived or a home once found.