Beautiful Changelings
Maxine Beneba Clarke's collection maps the transformations of women's lives, exploring growth, work, joy, exhaustion, and defiance.
Across four sections, Clarke examines what it means to move through womanhood under pressure, finding grace and survival in musical, furious, and caring language.
"the half they hold up's heavier"
This reworked saying captures the relentless weight of feminine labor, particularly during the pandemic, where caregiving, home life, and endurance became intertwined.
The poem is exacting yet compassionate, finding poetry in fatigue.
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Author's summary: Exploring women's transformations through poetry.