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Monday, May 28, 2018

"The Average Mother" by Camille Dungy

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May 28, 2018
 

The Average Mother

 
Camille T. Dungy
Camille T. Dungy reads "The Average Mother."

About This Poem

 

"I learned that statistic about sleep loss and was horrified. As I reflected on that number, I began to work on a series of poems that are composed of exactly seven hundred characters each. The title came relatively late in the process. I'd put the poem down for a long time. When I came back to it, I realized that in addition to describing the exhaustion of new parenthood it seemed to speak directly to how exhausting and precarious it often feels to live in this country in a body that looks like mine."
—Camille T. Dungy

 

Camille T. Dungy is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W. W. Norton, 2017). Dungy is a professor at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins.

 

Photo credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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