· Know the Mother, by Desiree Cooper "This astonishing flip--that human perception is the world’s foundation--comes to the fore again and again in the bright worlds of Cooper's meditations on care": Denise Dooley on Desiree Cooper's debut collection, Know the Mother. Know the Mother by Desiree Cooper In meditative stories, women find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. With lyrical and crafted prose, Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother, provides truths without sermon and invites empathy without sentimentality. · In "Know the Mother," author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative. While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector-at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different /5.
Know the Mother, by Desiree Cooper "This astonishing flip--that human perception is the world's foundation--comes to the fore again and again in the bright worlds of Cooper's meditations on care": Denise Dooley on Desiree Cooper's debut collection, Know the Mother. The reader comes to know the mother by feeling what the mother feels--anxiety, despair, loneliness, irritation, love., Desiree Cooper's Know the Mother is one of the most singularly focused short story collections I've encountered that wasn't really a novel-in-stories, or a collection of stories about a specific character or entity., The. Cooper was a founding board member of Cave Canem, a national residency for black poets, and has received residencies at Kimbilio and Ragdale. About the Book In "Know the Mother," author Desiree Cooper powerfully reveals how gender and race are often unanticipated interlopers in family life.
August 22nd, Shortly after I started reading Know the Mother —a slim volume of flash fiction by former attorney and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Desiree Cooper—my grandmother died of ovarian cancer. This was the woman who taught me how to ride the subway, and who let me live with her when I was trying to get my own journalism. In "Know the Mother," author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative. While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector-at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different. Know the Mother, by Desiree Cooper "This astonishing flip--that human perception is the world’s foundation--comes to the fore again and again in the bright worlds of Cooper's meditations on care": Denise Dooley on Desiree Cooper's debut collection, Know the Mother.
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