In Protection, Michelle Lerner explores the wonder and challenges of parenting from pregnancy through early childhood, taking on subjects rarely considered in poetry such as difficult labor, c-sections, questions of gender identity and development in young children, and the experience of parenting while chronically ill.
Throughout the chapbook, she returns again and again to the eternal dilemma of how to balance the urge to protect one 's child with acknowledgment of the child 's need for self-development and risk taking—how to distinguish "the you from the me / the definition from destruction / the stumble from the fall."
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