The Fourth Trimester

Author: Caroline O'Connor Thomas

Publisher: The Economy Press (2025)

What more can be said about the birth of a child? A lot, it turns out. Fourth Trimester, the latest book by the exceptionally gifted poet Caroline O’Connor Thomas, demonstrates that the deepest truths about this bizarre and beautiful occurrence can only be spoken in the language of metaphor. These poems are so strange and clear and generous and singular. If you are a parent, you will recognize the feelings in these poems. If you were born, you will understand something more about what it is like to be blessed and cursed with the maternal power to “make something of dust.”  

-Matthew Zapruder, I Love Hearing Your Dreams and How to Continue