Marge Piercy Reading-Jackie Loveland

Last week, for English we had to go to a poetry reading, where Marge Piercy read her poems. At first I was enjoying them and thought they were really good, but as she kept going through them, they started to get boring and I lost all the interest in listening that I had. At first she read her poems with excitement, but halfway through she herself seemed like she didn’t want to be reading them as much anymore and lost all the excitement in her voice, and just became very boring and dull. As for her poems, I liked a lot of them. My favorite one was My Mother Gives Me Her Recipe because I found it very funny. This poem talks about how her mom was telling her how to make a cake, but instead of handing her a written recipe, her mom was just telling her what to put in it. It was funny because the mom would say things like “Take some flour. Oh, I don’t know, like two-three cups”, “Did I say you add milk? Oh, just till it feels right” and “I forgot to say you add baking powder”. All these things also reminded me of when my grandmother use to try and give recipes to my mom because she never knew the exact measurements and she would always have more things to add in that she forgot once she got to the end.