EUGENE & MARCIA APPLEBAUM
JEWISH PARENTING CENTER
CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK
Presents:
Country, the liberal, artistical- him, but then I'd be revealing
ly-oriented Bloomfield Hills pri- that it took 13 years for me to
vate school I attended from fifth get the rebuttal published.
to 12th grades. I studied femi- Since I was married last sum-
nist theory, contemporary poet- mer, my husband Charlie has
ry and transactional analysis.
provided me with happiness,'se-
At 14 I barged into my fa- curity and a funny recurring
ther's den one day after school male character. He's also a
and said, "Your lack of emotional writer and insists I use a pseu-
reassurance adds to my feelings donym when I write about him.
of inadequacy and -rejection." He's been renamed "Aaron."
"I'm paying the tuition that's Now, every time I publish
allowing you to learn this crap," anything about love or marriage,
he said. "Now go and make me we get phone messages that say,
a cup of coffee." "Nice piece. But does Charlie
My parents realized that they know about this Aaron guy?"
were really in trouble when I OK, so mining your life for
was in college at the University material is tacky and exploita-
of Michigan, which my father tive. But you write best about
calls "The people's republic of what you know. And what else
Ann Arbor." There I saw a do you do with pain? If it's phys-
shrink, wrote poetry and paro- ical, a doctor makes a diagnosis
dies for a humor magazine and prescribes medication that
called Michigas
will hopefully
and announced
cure you. I've ex-
that my ultimate
plained to those I
goal was to become
My goal
love that, for me,
the female Philip
writing has al-
was to
Roth.
ways been my
When I moved
way of healing
become
a
to Manhattan in
myself. With pen
1981, I began sell-
female
in hand, I conquer
ing relationship
darkness, commit
Philip Roth.
pieces to national
important feel-
magazines. After
ings to memory,
an essay ran in
defy loss and turn
Cosmopolitan
about resolv- the most painful things in my
ing emotional conflicts with my life into something funny or wit-
mother — she called to say, "You ty or poignant.
made me sound like a bimbo,
Growing up in a family of doc-
and I'm writing a rebuttal on a tors and science brains, I find po-
daughter who lies about her etry to be my internal medicine,
mother all the time."
hence the book's title.
When Monica, my Manhat-
I remember when I sent Aunt
tan friend and mentor, fell for Jean my first three published
my kid brother Brian and mar- poems. She called to say, "I
ried him, I wrote about the didn't know you were so inse-
weird triangle for New Woman cure."
magazine. Since Brian's a sur-
"I'm secure with my insecuri-
geon in Grand Blanc and Re- ties," I told her, not ashamed to
publican like my father, he said admit such human flaws as fear,
I couldn't use his name. I hurt and confusion. The Cos-
changed it. •
sacks aren't coming, Auntie
But when they agreed to run Jean. Nobody really cares when
photographs and picked out I lost my virginity, except maybe
their favorites, I explained the the guy. And my mother.
inanity of having pictures run
"You never were good at se-
without real names. They re- crets," she said on my last visit
lented.
to Michigan.
I've also delved into my own
"I know. I wrote a stanza in
dubious past. When my first love the book that says, 'I have nev-
slept with my roommate, I pub- er been good at secrets/ unbut-
lished a prose poem about a man ton myself heedlessly.' "
who took apart pieces of a
"Well, stop it already," Mom
woman — popped her eyes out said.
of their sockets, removed her
Then she bought 20 copies.
arms from her torso — and
Which will give her 20
formed the woman he wanted. I chances to read my dedication
sent it to him with the note to her and my father, who pro-
`Thanks for the inspiration." (He vided me with love, shelter, room
wrote back to say my envelope to express myself honestly —
was dripping blood, and he was and all my good metaphors.
glad to hear I was so happy in
my new city.)
At the end of a six-month ro-
Susan Shapiro and Lynne
mance with my poetry profes-
Meredith
will their
poetry to Cohn
read
sor, he included his side of the
toge ther 8 P. Aug 19
at
breakup in "To a Young Woman
Lo nestar Coffee Co ' in ;
of Ambition," a poem in his 1984
Bi rmingham. For more infor-
collection. I've now set the record
mation, call Lynne Meredith
straight with "From a Young
Cohn, (248) 354-6060, Ext.
Woman of Ambition," a poem in
244.
my book. I'd like to send it to
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