What Kind of Woman, Poems by Kate Baer

What kind of woman, what kind of mother, lover, friend? Baer’s first poetry collection is a whirlwind ride through many of our emotional states, as we move through life’s many experiences as a woman. Voiced with honesty and vulnerability on the beauty and hardships of being a woman alive and kickin’ today, it is an incredibly moving collection.

Some of the prose elicited my own memories and emotions, and I could easily melt into the recall of my own experiences. Other moments were foreign to me, but it wasn’t hard to connect to Baer’s gentle call for justice and change.

This from Some Nights

Some nights she walks out to the

driveway where the lilacs bloom and

lies down on the warm pavement even

though the neighbours will see and wonder

what kind of woman does such things.

These poems are written in reverence to the femme, to our hungers, our desires, our loves. An ode to the complexities of our times; the challenges, the wins, the glory of making sense out of it all. To spend time with these poems and be lost in Baer’s magic, will bring you back to yourself. It fuels our own internal musings on the power and beauty of being a woman.

From To Take Back a Life

This is not a dress

rehearsal before a better kind of life.

Pick up your heavy burdens and leave

them at the gate. I will hold the door for

you.

Enjoy the magic!

Big love,

Rachel x