Comments on: crossing woman hollering creek http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2009/03/11/crossing-woman-hollering-creek/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crossing-woman-hollering-creek Publishing Creative and Contemporary Writing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:07:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Halifax http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2009/03/11/crossing-woman-hollering-creek/comment-page-1/#comment-1248 Halifax Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:23:06 +0000 http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/?p=413#comment-1248 In the title she limits it to a mother/daughter disentanglement. At the origin of the river, a woman hollers across to a woman hollering on the other side. In the title she limits it to a mother/daughter disentanglement. At the origin of the river, a woman hollers across to a woman hollering on the other side.

]]> By: savagewave http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2009/03/11/crossing-woman-hollering-creek/comment-page-1/#comment-1245 savagewave Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:26:25 +0000 http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/?p=413#comment-1245 This is so teen /young woman! Especially the use of "mother" rather than "mom" or "momma" or some other endearing term. It speaks of less intimacy, a separation, between mother and daughter (of course, it could be a son). The Walkman and staring out the window and going back to campus in the fall are all ways that the parent and the child are enmeshed in the natural separation that must occur with every parent /child relationship. Funny though...enmeshed and separation should be distinctively opposite terms, yet in the parent/child dynamic they are definitely not. The title /photo add dimensions to the mother /daughter thing too. A hollering mother certainly divides. Headphones on a teenager to block it all out. I see it in my own house these days. I really love the sentence fragment "i'm reading signs". That alone can say so much about so many things. Good stuff. aside: I can remember my first experience with a Walkman. I was amazed...had never listened to music with headphones before...and the sound! So amazing! I sat in a corner and listened to a tape (Joan Jett) for HOURS. This is so teen /young woman! Especially the use of “mother” rather than “mom” or “momma” or some other endearing term. It speaks of less intimacy, a separation, between mother and daughter (of course, it could be a son). The Walkman and staring out the window and going back to campus in the fall are all ways that the parent and the child are enmeshed in the natural separation that must occur with every parent /child relationship. Funny though…enmeshed and separation should be distinctively opposite terms, yet in the parent/child dynamic they are definitely not.

The title /photo add dimensions to the mother /daughter thing too. A hollering mother certainly divides. Headphones on a teenager to block it all out. I see it in my own house these days.

I really love the sentence fragment “i’m reading signs”. That alone can say so much about so many things.

Good stuff.

aside: I can remember my first experience with a Walkman. I was amazed…had never listened to music with headphones before…and the sound! So amazing! I sat in a corner and listened to a tape (Joan Jett) for HOURS.

]]> By: misener http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2009/03/11/crossing-woman-hollering-creek/comment-page-1/#comment-1242 misener Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:28:51 +0000 http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/?p=413#comment-1242 Right on. I love the brevity of this piece. Stakes Is High. Right on. I love the brevity of this piece. Stakes Is High.

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