What the euphemism! (Am I allowed to say "What the Euphemism?" in an Amazon review? If you read this as typed the answer clearly is yes. If the remark is expurgated you should know that this item was intended to start with a variant of "What the Greek Euphemism?" With that, I'll start over.)
And over, again. This euphemised version is evidence that the original was censored:
What the euphemism! I might as well write a review of my own book. Its a great book after all, one which deserves to be better known than it is, and it is also a book which lead me formulate the concept of the patremoir and to become a minor expert on the subject. It is a good starting point for anyone interested in reading father memoirs. Therefore, here is a brief glimpse of what Fathers: A Literary Anthology has in store for you.
Against the shock value of Philip Larkin's "They euphemism you up, your mum and dad / They may not mean to, but they do," I would like to oppose the sanity of Doris Lessing's ""We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed; they are always there for love or for hate."
In April of 2011, Patremoir Press[...] published Fathers: A Literary Anthology, a book of autobiographical pieces focusing on fathers. With personal essays and poems by 5 Nobel laureates, 7 Pulitzer winners, and writers such as Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka, and Virginia Woolf, the book is an impassioned argument for the importance of literature in our lives.
When looked at in groups, the writers in this anthology strongly suggest that the world is improved through writing. Robert Hayden, James Baldwin, and Rita Dove demonstrate how the world has changed and is changing for Afro-Americans. Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, and Alison Bechdel do the same for lesbians, as do Mordecai Richler, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth for Jews, and Michael Ondaatje, Derek Walcott, and Ken Wiwa, for colonized peoples.
On an individual level, Fathers is a self-help manual for all children trying to understand and improve their relationship with their father. There is much to be learned in thinking about the peculiarities of Franz Kafka, the obsessiveness of E. E. Cummings's father, or the genius of Winston Churchill. Fathers is also a powerful tool for fathers--fathers young or fathers old--to improve themselves. To read James Baldwin, Annie Dillard, Doris Lessing, Sharon Olds, or Philip Roth explore problems of fathers or fathering is to open maps of possibility.
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Andre Gerard
Behold the Patremoir (a review with euphemisms)
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2013Verified Purchase
