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Description:“Waniek is a poet of intelligence, passion, and gentleness with a fine sense of the comic and unfailing judgment about what constitutes a poetic line. She creates a rich mixture of impressions about the speaker of these poems as a woman who is at the same time in her mid-twenties and her mid-fifties, who is black and white and red, who is both trapped by and freed by motherhood.” ―Miller WilliamsMarilyn Nelson Waniek writes with great wisdom and compassion. Grounded but never earthbound, her poems speak honestly and eloquently about giving birth, nurturing life, and facing death; they inhabit the present, fully aware of their responsibilities to the past and the future. Waniek leaves us with the affecting strength and assurance of lasting things, as in the poem “Mama’s Promise.”But the dangerous highwaycurves through blue eveningswhen I hold his yielding handand snip his minuscule nailswith my vicious-looking scissors.I carry him aroundlike an egg in a spoon,and I remember a porcelain fawn,a best friend’s trust,my broken faith in myself.It’s not my grace that keeps me erectas the sidewalk clatters downhillunder my rollerskate wheels.Then I think of Mama,her bountiful breasts.When I was a child, I really swear,Mama’s kisses could heal.I remember her promise,and whisper it over my sweet son’s When you float to the bottom, child,like a mote down a sunbeam,you’ll see me from a trillion miles my eyes looking upon you,my arms outstretched for you like night.From “Mama’s Promise” published in Mama’s Promises by Marilyn Nelson.Copyright © 1985 by Marilyn Nelson Waniek. All rights reserved.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mama's Promises: Poems. To get started finding Mama's Promises: Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: “Waniek is a poet of intelligence, passion, and gentleness with a fine sense of the comic and unfailing judgment about what constitutes a poetic line. She creates a rich mixture of impressions about the speaker of these poems as a woman who is at the same time in her mid-twenties and her mid-fifties, who is black and white and red, who is both trapped by and freed by motherhood.” ―Miller WilliamsMarilyn Nelson Waniek writes with great wisdom and compassion. Grounded but never earthbound, her poems speak honestly and eloquently about giving birth, nurturing life, and facing death; they inhabit the present, fully aware of their responsibilities to the past and the future. Waniek leaves us with the affecting strength and assurance of lasting things, as in the poem “Mama’s Promise.”But the dangerous highwaycurves through blue eveningswhen I hold his yielding handand snip his minuscule nailswith my vicious-looking scissors.I carry him aroundlike an egg in a spoon,and I remember a porcelain fawn,a best friend’s trust,my broken faith in myself.It’s not my grace that keeps me erectas the sidewalk clatters downhillunder my rollerskate wheels.Then I think of Mama,her bountiful breasts.When I was a child, I really swear,Mama’s kisses could heal.I remember her promise,and whisper it over my sweet son’s When you float to the bottom, child,like a mote down a sunbeam,you’ll see me from a trillion miles my eyes looking upon you,my arms outstretched for you like night.From “Mama’s Promise” published in Mama’s Promises by Marilyn Nelson.Copyright © 1985 by Marilyn Nelson Waniek. All rights reserved.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mama's Promises: Poems. To get started finding Mama's Promises: Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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