tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143742537514581543.post5141557753136714300..comments2024-03-25T13:29:43.845-07:00Comments on A Year's Risings with Mary Oliver: In Pobiddy, GeorgiaLoraKim Joynerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07305359695072392847noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143742537514581543.post-3860427160667215592010-05-27T19:31:57.727-07:002010-05-27T19:31:57.727-07:00If you had not printed it all, I would have though...If you had not printed it all, I would have thought something was not making sense. It takes every word to tell the story. I have read it probably ten times. That last line is so forceful. I can feel how 'perfectly finished' she is. Did I interpret it correctly that the three women are what remains of a black family with three generations represented? Was the elderly woman finding out for the first time what happened to her other son? Once she knew she had nothing else to live for and was ready to die? Since my book has not arrived yet, I don't know when Mary wrote it. She was very astute in writing about the problem of black on black crime that leaves black families to the women. It is still happening today. The old lady was probably blind from cataracts, which also shows how our society doesn't provide surgery that would correct it to that segment of the population.Sallynoreply@blogger.com