Bearing

Barker shares the poem that his mom wrote to him on Oct 3, 1997. It's an eighteen-line, five-stanza poem with uneven, mostly unsuccessful end and internal rhymes. The title is "Nobody Knows," which signals an epistemic failure: nobody knows because knowledge is impossible. The truth c...

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Published in:Ploughshares 2020-12, Vol.46 (4), p.180-194
Main Author: BARKER, JEREMIAH
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Art and life
Broken homes
Family history
Family relations
Forgiveness
Mother-son relations
Mothers
NONFICTION
Poetry
Sexual identity
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