This collection of poems comes from the author's state of mind as both mother and daughter while coping with the care-giving and eventual loss of her own mother who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. In her own words: ..".. During the timespan of this volume, I was acting on a few basic principles that today may be thought of as romantic or impracticable: I believe that parents should be honored and taken care of, that children should not simply be left to their own "growing pains," and that families should try to stay together. "In Trying to Find You, I am not proselytizing, but reporting,...
This collection of poems comes from the author's state of mind as both mother and daughter while coping with the care-giving and eventual loss of her ...
Many of my poems reflect the effort to know or to build some structure around things or ideas that I haven’t yet figured out. It’s like E.M. Forster who said, “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” One could also ask, How do I know what I’ll say until I think it? or ...How do I know what I’ll say until I write it?
Er...another place my poems may be coming from: confusion. In general, confusion is a starting point for many poems. Perhaps especially the poems that are humorous or trying to be. ...
Many of my poems reflect the effort to know or to build some structure around things or ideas that I haven’t yet figured out. It’...
