Motherhood: Poems about Mothers (Pocket Poets)

Carmela Ciuraru (Editor)

Everyman's Library

2005

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-10: 1400043565

Celebrating mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, grandmothers and grandchildren, 'Motherhood' is a tribute to the first love in every reader's life. Among the more than seventy poets in this anthology, Audre Lorde recalls 'How the days went / While you were blooming within me'; Jorie Graham muses on her mother's sewing box; Allen Ginsberg says goodbye in 'Kaddish'; and Langston Hughes invokes a mother's empowering example - 'Don't you fall now / For I'se still goin', honey, / I'se still climbin', / And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.From Emily Bronte's 'Upon her soothing breast' and Seamus Heaney's 'Mother of the groom' to Sylvia Plath's 'Morning song' and Frank O'Hara's 'Ave Maria,' the more than one hundred poems collected here enshrine the miracle of motherhood and the richness of feeling and experience it inspires.