Saturday, May 24, 2025

When I Looked Back, You Were Gone

By: Cary Waterman

personal paperback, 89 pages

Published: 1992

Genre: poetry

 

I got this book when I was working on my master's degree. It was required for one of my literature classes. Since I'm trying to decrease my possessions and one of my daughters-in-law enjoys poetry, I decided to re-read it and give it to her.

 

Waterman is very talented, but I mostly like poetry when I can read a little at a time, saying lines aloud, and thinking about the meaning. Some of the poems I had marked up with observations. 

 

I like the sentimental ones about parents the best. I love some of her figurative language; the images are evocative.

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