Dad, Remember You Are Dead
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Dad, Remember You Are Dead

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Dad, Remember You Are Dead

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Jacqueline Saphra will follow her critically acclaimed, T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted All My Mad Mothers (2017) with Dad, Remember You Are Dead, a sister volume to her previous collection, taking on the canon in an examination of fatherhood and daughterhood within a wider context.

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Publisher
Nine Arches Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781911027751
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Poesia

My Father’s Stories

as a baby
you had a sixth sense
just when I was falling asleep
you woke up screaming
the one about my dirty bathroom
back in the day & how he declined
a shower because of the filth
kiss me on the lips
on the lips
please
not on the cheek
how I foolishly rolled
down a hill
onto a bed of nettles & he was forced
to give me a cold bath
stop crying be quiet
& I asked why
my chest was hurting
& he felt around
for a long time
My daughter is growing breasts!
Breast buds he said
I am a man
more sinned against
than sinning
how he is constantly, constantly
in demand
read my paper
it’s all about you
breast uterus
menstruation menopause
the one about his best friend’s
beautiful wife
& uncontrollable events
in the swimming pool
I was caught
in flagrante only last week
by my daughter ha ha!
the hiking trip
in the mountains
where he brought only
one blanket
calm down
stop chattering
it’s only the weather
how he didn’t want
to go to the brothel
but he couldn’t offend the hosts
& the lovely oriental women
nothing to do
but smoke excellent weed
& contemplate illicit liaisons
the one about broccoli & balsamic vinegar
life was losing its lustre.
how obviously
he wouldn’t say it
if he was
actually going to do it
what’s it like
to be a teenage girl
growing breasts?
the one about the nurses
& the sight
of their lovely black bottoms
they call me
an expert witness
& about his fourth wife
he’s making a spreadsheet
of everything she says
& will send it to me
be a good girl
& how he would commit incest
if it wasn’t illegal
it’s a joke
the one about the affair
the one about the affair
the one about the affair
the sex is
transcendental
how he had to end the marriage
when she wouldn’t sleep with him
it wasn’t about
the other women
most fathers
would have lost control
but not your...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Recusatio Redacted
  7. The Power
  8. Carina
  9. Lessons My Father Taught Me
  10. Strip
  11. To My Little Sister at the Shore
  12. How We Saw Things
  13. Chiaroscuro
  14. Dad and the Facts
  15. Offal
  16. Portrait of My Father as a Kipper One Week Old
  17. Utterance
  18. My Father’s Parts
  19. Triolet for a Good Father
  20. Fallopia Japonica
  21. There are not many friends I can talk to like this over a continental breakfast
  22. The Canon
  23. The Hinges are Broken
  24. Forgiveness
  25. My Stepfather’s Will
  26. Not the Deathbed just the Disappointment
  27. The Big Picture
  28. you do not have to be wise you do not have to be kind you do not have to be right you do not have to be good
  29. After Sodom
  30. My Father’s Stories
  31. Darkroom Lessons
  32. Milk and Ash
  33. My Mother’s Will
  34. Yael and Sisera
  35. Death Charm
  36. My Father’s Will
  37. Burial
  38. August Evening on the Estuary
  39. Songs and Stones
  40. Leda and the Swan
  41. Acknowledgements and Thanks
  42. About the author and this book