4. Describe the process of coming to terms with your father's mortality or the subject of parenthood in "My Father Sings to my Embarrassment"?
My father was very inner-directed, danced to his own beat. I have to say he was quite brave, driven. He had, for example, this desire to re-invent himself, become a musician, a songwriter, and he never let go of that vision of himself—he took it with him. Growing up, my sisters and I were always mortified by his appearances in local venues, to which we, of course, were dragged. It certainly wasn't how we saw him, but he was not at all discouraged. I think, however, that my father was enamored with the notion of starting over—Miami as a metaphor, a new city, where you could be who you wanted to be. I often wish I were that brave. That being said, my poem, "My Father Sings to My Embarrassment" combines these two polarities my thoughts/feelings about my father in those early years when we first arrived in Miami, and his own sense of self.
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