I'm a day behind, but I'm here! I have a very long factoid title about pay inequality, but here's the first two lines of a prose-poem: "It’s a wonder my maternal grandmother lived as long as she did, a motherless child herself, filling her mouth with Our Father’s and Hail Mary’s, rather than fighting for literal scraps tossed down basement steps;"
I love a lot of Camille Dungy's poems. One of the factoids I had already written on my notecards (from an old notebook) is: "12% of Americans questioned think Noah's Wife" was Joan of Ark" (I didn't take note of where I read it. I already have a poem about Noah's Wife and don't know if I'll get a poem out of this, but it's good for a laugh.
Oh my goodness, her work is so, so great. TROPHIC CASCADE is a really excellent book of poems, and she also has an amazing book of prose, GUIDEBOOK TO RELATIVE STRANGERS
I'm a day behind, but I'm here! I have a very long factoid title about pay inequality, but here's the first two lines of a prose-poem: "It’s a wonder my maternal grandmother lived as long as she did, a motherless child herself, filling her mouth with Our Father’s and Hail Mary’s, rather than fighting for literal scraps tossed down basement steps;"
ooh love it
I love a lot of Camille Dungy's poems. One of the factoids I had already written on my notecards (from an old notebook) is: "12% of Americans questioned think Noah's Wife" was Joan of Ark" (I didn't take note of where I read it. I already have a poem about Noah's Wife and don't know if I'll get a poem out of this, but it's good for a laugh.
That's bonkers! A great title, whatever else you do with it
😂 That is hilarious!
What an intriguing prompt! Thank you for introducing me to Camille Dungy's work...her poems take my breath away
Oh my goodness, her work is so, so great. TROPHIC CASCADE is a really excellent book of poems, and she also has an amazing book of prose, GUIDEBOOK TO RELATIVE STRANGERS
just ordered the Guidebook as Audiobook.