I Go Back
Posted: 2009/04/08 Filed under: Book Reviews, BookLust II, Fiction, Poetry | Tags: 2009, april, divorce, Fiction, parenting, Poetry Leave a commentOlds, Sharon. “I Go Back to May 1937.” The Gold Cell. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
I must have read “I Go back to May 1937” a dozen times. It’s so personal, so haunting, so intriguing. The narrator (presumably Olds) wishes she could go back to the time just before her parents got married just so she could stop them from getting that together. She wants to warn them of the hurt they will cause each other and their child. Instinctively you want to know more – hurt each other how? Physically? Mentally? Is she talking about divorce? She does say “he is the wrong man.” But!But.But, to stop her parents from falling in love and getting married is to undo her very existence. It’s a dilemma of curious proportions.
BookLust Twist: From More Book Lust in the chapter, “Poetry Pleasers” (p 189).
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