Song of myself poem5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() This happens so often with poems: It’s difficult to ignore one’s obsessions. Even a poem like “Space Junk,” which describes satellite debris drifting around in low-Earth thermosphere, has a father and his kids-he’s trying to point out various interstellar objects in the night sky through a telescope. But even when I made the conscious decision to write about a subject as far removed from it as I could manage, fatherhood kept creeping in. ![]() How is this piece representative of the treatment of the topic throughout the book?īB: I never intended for parenthood to be such a leitmotif. ![]() “Primer” is one of many poems in your new book that addresses parenting. Inevitably, too, I kept repeating that “antique” refrain, as the poem says, too soon, too soon. I remember wishing, as she zipped across the asphalt, that bike-riding took a little more time for her to learn-just so we had a project to work on together, something to fill those afternoons after she finished schoolwork. Well, I say “taught,” but really she just sort of hopped on and started pumping. During that initial lockdown period in March, when we were all stuck at home, I taught my 6-year-old daughter to ride a bike in a church parking lot down the street from our house. Brian Brodeur Talk a little bit about what kind of mood you wanted to establish in the poem “Primer.”īrian Brodeur: I must have started drafting “Primer,” like several poems in the book, amid the challenges of the first “pandemic year” in 2020. ![]()
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