Oh Mother and Other Poems book
Oh Mother and Other Poems

By Stephanie Loux
San Francisco: Protean Press, 1991. Edition of 70.

8.75 x 5.75" with 24 pages, bound in red cloth boards with paper titles on spine. Printed on Mohawk Letterpress paper using various sizes of Spectrum type. The photoengraved illustrations are from line drawings by Rik Olson. Title-page calligraphy by Ann Miller.

Stephanie Loux's poems focus on her relationships with family - her parents, brothers & sister, her husband & sons - and her friends. The poems do not appear in chronological order. They were written from 1983 to 1989. She found her return to college after an absence of fifteen years to be a period of exploration and reevaluation.

Yes, Mother, I see you.
You are being the Perfect Grandmother.
And yes, my son is enjoying being with you.
But how much more he would enjoy it
if you were there with him. Oh Mother.

Oh Mother,
what you keep looking for in my face
you would find
if you would only look at his.

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