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Nov 4, 2025
Description
“Kate Baer's poems are so full of life—life as it is now, that I can hear them breathing. I loved this book.”—Emma Straub
"How About Now is a balm, a banister, and a battering ram. Her very best yet."—Catherine Newman
The third full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman.
Renowned poet Kate Baer returns with a bold and compassionate collection that confronts the march of time in a shifting world.
With her trademark candor and curiosity, Baer explores what it means to grow older, to release children into the wildness of their own lives, and to reclaim the ever-evolving self. Raw, luminous, and urgent, this collection channels Baer’s own journey to middle age into poems that are profoundly intimate yet resound universally, identifying the beauty, resilience, and fragility that arrive in every stage of life.
How About Now is a striking declaration of ongoing transformation and self-discovery. From the poet who has captured the heartbeat of the modern woman, this collection reaffirms Kate Baer’s place among the most vital voices of our era.
Product Details
| Publisher | Harper Perennial |
| Publish Date | November 04, 2025 |
| Pages | 112 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780063306080 |
| Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.3 X 0.3 inches | 16.0 pounds |
About the Author
Kate Baer is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman, I Hope This Finds You Well, and And Yet. Her work has also been published in The New Yorker, Literary Hub, Huffington Post, and the New York Times.
Reviews
“Kate Baer's poems are so full of life—life as it is now, life as it is for so many of us who are women and wives and mothers—that I can hear them breathing. I loved this book.” — Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow
"When you love the world and are weary, here is Kate Baer to shine her light like the kind of radiant and brilliant friend who says, same. Who says, I've got you. So you can take a breath and let your shoulders drop. So you can turn and lift your face. How About Now is a balm, a banister, and a battering ram. Her very best yet." — Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich
"Raw, honest, painful, inspiring. To see oneself reflected in another person's words is such an important reminder of how not alone we actually are. Beautiful and real." — Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened and You Are Here
“Kate Baer has a brilliant, transformative talent for 'making/ everything/ into something.' She makes life into art, crafting poems that are part snapshot, part mirror, part outstretched hand. Baer’s poems are beautifully distilled and compressed, but they’re enormous inside; they hold our world. How About Now is her best book yet.” — Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"Midlife, midnight. In love and out of it. Kids, cats, the ominous pulse of time, time, time. Every Kate Baer poem in How About Now is a lifeline, tethering one woman to herself. To read this collection is to be known." — Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
"Kate Baer’s poetry is a prescription for the agony of modern living; each word she writes convinces me that nothing is mundane and everything is meaningful." — Nora McInerny, author of Bad Vibes Only and It's Okay to Laugh
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