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The article discusses the element of sentimentalism in contemporary American poetry on motherhood. It states how the realism concept is used in American poetical literature to depict motherhood as a happy event and eliminate the sentimentality. It also discusses how motherhood poetry should abide by the norms of literary and cultural aesthetics. It mentions poets like Sophie Jewett, Anne Bradstreet and Rachel Zucker.

The poem "Machine Religion," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Jesus is a lyric poem. Last Line: E string pleads.

The poem "The Introvert's Lament," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: One person I mimic. One person I triptych. Last Line: the bulb, hardly likely to survive.

The poem "The Pact" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Mother, I have destroyed you. Forgive me as I am; Last Line: and all the daughters caught in their rows.

The poem "&" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Darling, you are my boxed-in place, my razor blade, Last Line: is your souvenir, my heart a stone, a sealed keepsake.

The poem "Pledge" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: I promise I will know you like the back of a hand, Last Line: martyr entrances for the exits they become.

The poem "Electric Fence" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: My collar is my lover's death. Last Line: eyes fill; he hinges, he stands.

The poem "Chemistry" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Don't fuse, at least. Don't beaker. Don't; Last Line: Is not a firefly jars would hold.

The poem "&" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Darling, you are my boxed-in place, my razor blade, Last Line: is your souvenir, my heart a stone, a sealed keepsake.

The poem "Antisocial Media" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: It's easier to computer than to crash. It's easier; Last Line: by the time they reach the door, delivered only once.

The poem "Corrosion Therapy" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: You're invited. To a crime that, like me; Last Line: Let you and what you could be collide.

The poem "Trajectory" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: When the one limb sins while the body can't watch, Last Line: that die of hunger and we let them be our name.

The poem "Criminal How-To" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Should pick the lock. Should steal the car. Last Line: this easy. The will to live misplaced.