Loon In Late November Water (2018) is Freya Manfred's seventh full-length collection of poems. Her previous collections include Speak Mother (2015) and Swimming with a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle (2008).
This book of poems contains two parts, 'Giving Birth' and 'The Lake that Whispers to Itself'; the first part celebrates family, the second, a poem sequence in four seasons, commemorates a lake.
Freya Manfred's new collection explores the connections between experience, memory, and emotion. Her yearning crystallizes in images of nature or of loved ones now present or vividly remembered. These glimpses of a life richly lived unfold with the simplicity and imaginative concreteness of a true master.
One of every thirty babies born today is a twin--close to double the percentage of twins born just a quarter-century ago. Raising two children born on the same day presents special challenges to parents, and offers unusual rewards. In 'Raising Twins' poet Freya Bly offers a unique perspective on the experience, based on weekly notes she kept from the time of her pregnancy until her sons, Rowan and Bly, were in college.