Mother said
Subtitle: poems
By: by Hal Sirowitz.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Poetry
First sentence: Don't swim in the ocean while it's raining, Mother said.
Description: For anyone who has ever had a mother - and that includes most of us - or is a mother (one way or another), Hal Sirowitz's poetry speaks the truth. About families, about relationships. Written in mother vernacular, these poems have the ring of adult nursery rhymes, with a tinge of horror and a ton of humor. Think Philip Larkin inspired by Norman Bates, or the Brothers Grimm of pop poetry. Think, think, think ... of your own mother.

Or, if you are a mother, think of yourself Sirowitz's poems are deceptively simple, achingly familiar, brutally funny. Mother Said is the Mother of all poetry. Read it and laugh. Read it and weep.
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