The Things She Said by Don Herzberg

In this wry memoir of his mother, Herzberg revisits a memorable childhood-- the trouble, the liveliness, and above all, the language of his mother commenting, often fiercely on their lives.

From "A Word"

If she didn’t want “Tsuris like this

I wondered if there was tsuris

she wouldn’t mind – maybe   

the cat’s claws ripping into

the frayed fabric of the easy chair 

she never sat in any more or the rain 

starting just when she was ready 

to hang wrung-out laundry 

on the clothesline out back.


These poems are funny, affectionate, and moving.

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