Birth Chart

"As heartfelt in its care for people and words as it is unsparing in its critical gaze, Birth Chart rethinks the relationship between astrology and motherhood. Rachel Feder asks, if astrology constellates the universe around the moment of one's birth, then how might it serve as shorthand for a vast number of personal experiences and cultural phenomena? How might it speak to and of friendship, motherhood, authorship, the mysteries of literary history, and the wonders of watching a child come into language? Across four sections, including a serial poem in sustained conversation with the…