http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/05/mom/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/05/mom/#comment-335 Lisa Tue, 22 May 2007 17:43:20 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=185#comment-335 I hear you. When my mother reads my very personal essays, she says, "I never knew that," and immediately goes back to the TV, where she knows all the stories, history, plots, subplots, illnesses, loves, passions and dissappointments of every character. Every mother is different, of course. And we all must find different ways to access mothering in our lives, as you have. I hear you. When my mother reads my very personal essays, she says, “I never knew that,” and immediately goes back to the TV, where she knows all the stories, history, plots, subplots, illnesses, loves, passions and dissappointments of every character. Every mother is different, of course. And we all must find different ways to access mothering in our lives, as you have.
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/05/mom/#comment-334 Jeffrey Mon, 14 May 2007 04:58:00 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=185#comment-334 Hi Patricia, Thanks for your touching post. It is sad, to me anyway, that your mother hasn't come to see you read more and embraced that huge, central part of you. I love the idea of expanding the definition of mother. On a personal note, I have a number of poems that address my mother's drug addiction, and the weird thing is that she loved coming to see me read, even when I was reading poems that were highly critical of her. Anyway, Happy Mothers Day to you, mother to so many. Jeffrey Hi Patricia,
Thanks for your touching post. It is sad, to me anyway, that your mother hasn’t come to see you read more and embraced that huge, central part of you. I love the idea of expanding the definition of mother.
On a personal note, I have a number of poems that address my mother’s drug addiction, and the weird thing is that she loved coming to see me read, even when I was reading poems that were highly critical of her.
Anyway, Happy Mothers Day to you, mother to so many. Jeffrey
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/05/mom/#comment-333 Frances-Anne Solomon Sun, 13 May 2007 22:53:45 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=185#comment-333 Thanks yet again, Patricia, I'm going to go right now and quote those last 2 lines to everyone in my life who fits that bill. Thanks yet again, Patricia, I’m going to go right now and quote those last 2 lines to everyone in my life who fits that bill.
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