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On Denise Riley

The LRB Podcast

CHAPTER

The Importance of Time in Pregnancy

"I find that completely harrowing now," she says. "You go from, you know, making sure the infant doesn't die to making sure the toddler doesn't kill himself." She writes of waiting for them to call her and say they've been killed in a car crash. The poem is about what it's like to be a mother; there are slapstick lines referring to Jacob's condition.

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