{"product_id":"_terrelg","title":"The Terrible Man on the Plane and Other Poems About My Mother, by E. Laura Golberg","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry,  prose, chapbook, 36 pages, from \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Terrible Man on the Plane\u003c\/em\u003e paints a portrait of my mother, Dr. Bea Klempman. It starts with the story of how she came to study medicine in England during World War II, and her passage, by ship, in late 1943, back to South Africa.This is followed by poems about her marriage and her time in England after the War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy family moved to America in 1967 and my mother, age 51, had to pass medical exams in order to practice. She did so and became the Director of the Albany, N.Y. VD Clinic. My mother, so conservative as she was in her attitude to sex, was totally nonjudgmental with her patients.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs I reached my late seventies, I wrote two of the final poems. Old age has made me more sympathetic about some of my mother’s decisions that had troubled me when I was younger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe final poem is a reminder of how charming my mother could be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eE. Laura Golberg emigrated to America from England in 1969. She has lived in Washington, D.C. for the past fifty years where she married her American husband. Her poems have been nominated for both Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eBarrow Street\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRattle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoet Lore\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLaurel Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBirmingham Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRHINO\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Humanistic Mathematics\u003c\/em\u003e, among many other places. Laura won first place in the Washington, DC Commission on the Arts Larry Neal Poetry Competition. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"E. Laura Golberg","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":49771705237819,"sku":"_TERRELG","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":49771705270587,"sku":"_TERRELGe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/Planefront.png?v=1733774264","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/_terrelg","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}