The Baby Book

Name: The Baby Book
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Robin Silbergleid

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At twenty-seven, Robin Silbergleid decided to become a single mother by choice; The Baby Book depicts her long struggle to build her family through assisted reproductive technology. It is a bold, multi-voiced narrative of reproductive choice, including infertility treatment, recurrent miscarriage, and high-risk pregnancy.

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Meet the Author

Robin Silbergleid is the author of The Baby Book, the memoir Texas Girl, and several chapbooks, most recently In the Cubiculum Nocturnum (Dancing Girl Press). She is also co-editor, with Kristina Quynn, of Reading and Writing Experimental Texts: Critical Innovations. She teaches at Michigan State University, where she directs the Creative Writing Program. She also collaborates with the infertility education, oral history, and portraiture project and traveling art exhibition The ART of Infertility.

Critic Reviews

It is impossible to read just one poem from Robin Silbergleid’s new collection. . . . As the book’s speaker endures obstacles on the path to parenthood, readers develop an intimacy with the narrative, and an appreciation for how the poet captures surreal elements of clinical scenes and their accompanying vernacular. With the emotional depth of a novel, and the poignancy of memoir, Silbergleid has created a testament to the human spirit, and a poetry collection that is truly unforgettable.
— Mary Biddinger, author of A Sunny Place with Adequate Water

Sophisticated and gripping, this depiction of a single woman’s experience of donor insemination, miscarriage, and birth is a major accomplishment. This artistic response to a common but little discussed human experience is powerful and moving. The Baby Book is at once evocative and informative; it takes the literature on pregnancy loss to a whole new level.
— Linda Layne, author of Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America and producer of Motherhood Lost: Conversations

Robin Silbergleid’s The Baby Book is a relentless, fierce examination of miscarriage, loss, pregnancy, and labor that is both a commentary on modern medicine as well as a timeless reflection on motherhood, grief, and desire. A brutal and resilient narrative! I hope that this book creates much-needed dialogues.
— Julianna Baggott, author of This Country of Mothers