Girl Woman Wife Mother

Talya Jankovits' fierce, sexy, tender, searching poems chart the serpentine course of moving through life in a female body, and all its attendant frustrations and perils and sweetness and deep pleasures. These poems and their speaker stretch outside their own lines, break their own silences, step toward self-trust, self-love. As much as this book explores being girl woman wife mother, it also explores being a writer, and Talya Jankovits is a glorious one indeed. I'm grateful for this generous collection and eagerly await future books from this talented author.

-Gayle Brandeis, author of The Selfless Bliss of the Body

These poems speak to each word in the title, honestly, beautifully, and with raw, deep love. In Talya's poem, 'My Stomach'...after childbirth-"I want to love this/mound of flesh/like I love you." And as she writes in the Dedications-"There is much beauty in the chaos of being all things at once."

-Alma Luz Villanueva, author of Gracias



In girl woman wife mother, Talya Jankovits welcomes the reader into her world, into her "garden of tiny heartbeats," with brazen tenderness. Her poetry reveals her perspective with an unflinching bravery. This debut poetry collection is cause for celebration.

-Rachel Kann, Fulbright Scholar and author of How to Bless the New Moon