The Invented Mother explores cultural notions and daily realities of our most elemental relationships, as well as gender, sexuality, nature and creation. It's poems are full of wonder: What is a mother? What is natural and what is constructed? How do words define us? Here, acts of care, creativity and violence are subjects that begin with awe of the natural world. Written in a variety of forms, animals, food, color and light animate verse that evokes the mysteries of love on a changing planet.