Ms. [Alicia] Ostriker touches deeply on the experience of role reversal. The simple story line is familiar: A daughter removes her aging mother from her home, sells her house and places her in a nursing home. We see the mother stripped of her familiar surroundings and of her dignities--but we see the speaker, the poet, also reverting.from Rodger Kamenetz: The Arty Semite: The Tenderness of Age
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