This book travels through places--New York, Havana, various Argentine cities, Madrid--while the poetic voice in turn goes through various stages of motherhood: the birth of the first daughter, hope and also danger, illness, and then the next pregnancy, the spontaneous abortion, pain and the feeling that life goes on without pause. The Scar in the Jungle is a book of immense rawness about motherhood, its fears and anxieties. Rarely has spontaneous abortion been dealt with in such an explicit way as in this collection of poems.
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