The Cincinnati Review: Asa Drake’s “I Inherited No Photographs” appears in issue 23.1. Today, she shares some intimate and beautifully observed family photographs taken by her mother. The Family Portraits Behind “I Inherited No Photographs” When I first decided to add images to Beauty Talk, my forthcoming poetry collection with Noemi Press, I was thinking …
Before my mother’s mother (beside her mother), my father’s mother in her casket. There are no men beyond my mother’s father or my father.Perhaps this is why they loved their camera,my young parents who photographed everything beyond my mother’s mother.Beside my mother: her dog, red motor vehicles, a wooden spoon, an iron bell behind my …
(To use the PDF embedder to see all pages of the poem, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand side.) Text: Through one she says, “I want you to be happy.” / Through the other she tells an anecdote from her own life I need to be generous to flowers to be generous to animals. …