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Annotated by:
- Donley, Carol
- Date of entry: Apr-16-1996
Summary
This poem is narrated by a school girl watching her anorexic mother force herself to eat cottage cheese so she can stay alive for her daughter. Apparently the mother's mother has also died young (at age twenty or so), and this mother at forty has no will to live, but forces herself to survive for the sake of her child.
Primary Source
The Gold Cell
Publisher
Knopf
Place Published
1987
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