Bøker av Vanessa Ogle

Mother of 0 by Vanessa Ogle takes a deep dive into the dynamics of parenting and the mother/daughter relationship. The poet urges us to "remember when they tried/ to blame perceived/ flaws/ on mothers." Mothers shape us, even when "mother no longer looks the same." These poems will leave you thinking. -Leah Huete de Maines, Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Northern Kentucky University

As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle's chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.