
Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska
The New Yorker: Poetry
The Power of the Particulars
The son in the poem who's only really mentioned in the beginning is another split self or it almost causes the split. The son is like this absence but then there's this wonderful image of the breast milk like weed far in the back. I think again it's a question of the power of the particulars and whether the particulars are narratively true or they're emotionally true.
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