Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
A mother-in-law's mind moulders like wedding cake while her daughter-in-law, reading as she waits for the iron to heat, hears angels chiding her to have no patience and to be insatiable. Ten numbered sections set Emily Dickinson writing in an Amherst pantry, Samuel Johnson's dog walking on its hind legs and a shelf of admired women against the daily work of a household. Rich dated the poems one by one from here on, and later called the sequence her break with the formal manner her first two books had been praised for.
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- alludes to ↑ My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun
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