"The poems in Whiny Baby explore the poet’s responses to memory and middle age, and map the push-pull of the places she spends her time-all with the awareness of the privilege and audacity required in order to complain about the possibilities of a fortunate life. The long poem in the middle of the collection playfully explores modern life and angst and what it means to try to live in the moment with awareness, humanity and honesty. This collection offers forthright and questioning poems, laments and love letters, mining family and home through the decades of a poet’s life."-- Provided by publisher.