We all have childhood and family stories, good ones, bad ones, and usually some of each. Childhood shapes us, helping us be the adults we eventually become. We learn things, directly and indirectly, by living in the families we have.
In The View from Childhood: Poems, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell takes both a candid and loving look at her Italian Catholic immigrant family. It’s a loving look, one that includes thankfulness to her elder siblings for introducing her to serious poetry (she says she originally wanted to be an opera singer). But like all families, there are things you don’t want to learn and prefer not to see. But they’re there, and you learn to come to terms with them.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
Orthodoxy – poem by Scott Cairns at The Rabbit Room.
Praise Song for My Mother – Andrea Potos at Every Day Poems.
The Charge of the Light Brigade – poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson at Every Day Poems.
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