The Lioness in Winter by Ann Burack-Weiss

Author:Ann Burack-Weiss [Burack-Weiss, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Social Work, Gerontology, Death & Dying, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Literary Figures
ISBN: 9780231525336
Google: FpmACgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-10-13T05:28:58+00:00

The mother, “the other against whom we think we know who we are,” becomes the measuring rod against which we measure our own lives. When the mother’s life is unfulfilled, they are taken into the self; anger and resentment battle with compassion, sorrow, and regret. I read on, remembering Polly, my mother.

Marge Piercy writes:

I treasure many photographs of others, especially those of my parents when they were young or when they were not so young but I was. I have written poems about some of these photographs. Whenever I look at the few pictures of my mother in her youth that I possess, my sense of how she was cheated of her potential, how she stymied and stifled and starved of affection and pleasure and knowledge, cuts through me. I mourn her death but I also mourn her stunted and unfulfilled life. I resemble my mother more as I age than I did when I was younger. Sometimes when I see a particular photograph now, that resemblance will startle and touch me.

(2001:152)

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