“一本关于女人和水、婴儿和艺术的书，虽然讲述的是爱尔兰的历史，但这本书关注的是生命存在的原始、狂野与残酷的美丽。”

《奶：母性与疯狂》是一幅通往“母性”的地图，讲述一个女人初为人母的经历，既温柔又深沉，同时也是当前在爱尔兰生育孩子会面临到的困难与痛苦。作者Alice Kinsella是一位年轻的母亲，二十多岁时生下儿子，在一个新城镇漂泊，过着全然陌生的生活。

好评

A radiant, meditative, truly powerful and beautiful book. -- Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea

Wielding a panoply of shattered literary forms, Alice Kinsella expertly depicts the gradual disintegration of a woman into the motherbaby dyad. MILK is an important addition to the growing canon of work about the physical, political, and philosophical destabilization of motherhood. -- Sarah Manguso, author of Very Cold People

I don’t think I’ve ever been more consumed by a book before. I devoured it. It took hold of me, curled right up in beside my bones. A book of women and water , babies and art - the herstory of Ireland - but mostly this is a book about the raw, riotous, brutally beautiful act of being alive. Kinsella manages something rare here; weaving her own story so exquisitely with that of both the human and non human world she is part of. Reading her words on mothering and creating - on care and hope- was an incredibly healing thing indeed. -- Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places

Milk is mesmerizing, comforting, angering, delicate, tough, perceptive, funny and clever. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Every page. Every word. Every moment. Every mother, every son, every father, every daughter, every Irish person, every human needs to read this glorious book. -- Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, author of All The Money in The World

Milk is beautifully written - by a poet, clearly, but with no indulgence or digression into ornament, only strangeness and a kind of stylistic purity, like a chime. ― Niamh Campbell, author of This Happy

A powerful and yet delicate mix of the personal and political, Milk is an unflinching and unique memoir that looks at the experience of motherhood against the backdrop of a seemingly changed Ireland.

关于作者

Alice Kinsella于1993年出生于都柏林，在都柏林三一学院学习英国文学和哲学。 她的诗歌小册子《性感水果》（Sexy Fruit ）入选诗歌书社2019年春季选集，编辑了《空房子：关于气候危机的诗歌和散文》（Empty House: poetry and prose on the climate crisis）。并获得了 2022/23 艺术委员会下一代奖。 《奶：母性与疯狂》是她的第一本散文集。她目前和家人住在爱尔兰西海岸。