#10 - A poem that looks at the dark side of motherhood
In this episode, I read - "Hero" by Jericho Brown. This poem is from his Pulitzer winning collection, “The Tradition”. He won the Poetry Pulizer for Poetry for 2020, just last week. This poem takes the difficult childhood that Jericho had and draws from it a universal echo for all motherhood. Despite his own unpleasant childhood, he finds great empathy for his mother, and likens her exhaustion to a soldier returning from war. I cannot do justice to his words without using his own. So listen in to this episode for yourself and discover that small unspoken part about motherhood that only mothers know and speak of. I read from the daily poem emailer that I receive in my inbox from The Paris Review, which is a literary magazine. There is no public link to the poem. The host, Ravneet Bawa as - @one_third_above on Instagram @maikeya on Twitter Email: ravneet_bawa@icloud.com Disclaimer: This podcast is created for sharing with friends and family, and only as a passion project amidst the Covid lockdown with no commercial interest. In all cases I read only from sources on the public internet or copies of books I possess.