58 min
MOTHER’S DAY: confessions when a writer is a daughter! Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Podcast Feed
-
- Cultura y sociedad
Never mind the headlines, thereâ€s plenty of drama in the kitchen . . . itâ€s a lot. A play in the making about a daughter raising her mother from the dead, an act of which her mother approves, although not the means, which is poetry and gets you nowhere . . . . Our show considers a poetâ€s writing about her mother and ultimately making her mother immortal in the process, and the role poetry can play in days of headline news (there may come a day in newspapers†demise when that is going to be a quaint expression, only metaphor—) (let it not be so!), with framing poems by Dorianne Laux and Shakespeare, and music from “Hair†and Carol King and Judy Collins and “Que Sera Sera.†So Iâ€m sharing with you my poems about my mother, as a tribute program to Motherâ€s Day, and some day, I will share my poems about being a mother, and what that has to do with poetry! Are you listening because you love mothers or because you love poetry? I will try to honor both kinds of listening! May the 4thand every day be with you. Yours sincerely, Professor Mossberg, aka Dr. B © Barbara Mossberg 2019
Never mind the headlines, thereâ€s plenty of drama in the kitchen . . . itâ€s a lot. A play in the making about a daughter raising her mother from the dead, an act of which her mother approves, although not the means, which is poetry and gets you nowhere . . . . Our show considers a poetâ€s writing about her mother and ultimately making her mother immortal in the process, and the role poetry can play in days of headline news (there may come a day in newspapers†demise when that is going to be a quaint expression, only metaphor—) (let it not be so!), with framing poems by Dorianne Laux and Shakespeare, and music from “Hair†and Carol King and Judy Collins and “Que Sera Sera.†So Iâ€m sharing with you my poems about my mother, as a tribute program to Motherâ€s Day, and some day, I will share my poems about being a mother, and what that has to do with poetry! Are you listening because you love mothers or because you love poetry? I will try to honor both kinds of listening! May the 4thand every day be with you. Yours sincerely, Professor Mossberg, aka Dr. B © Barbara Mossberg 2019
58 min