Motherhood

Ciuraru, Carmela

£10.99

Every poet is a mother’s child, and many of our greatest poets have immortalised this relationship. This collection brings together a diverse range of contributions from the likes of Plath, Shikibu and Ginsberg in order to express the form and feeling of this universal experience.

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Publish Date: 03/02/2005
ISBN: 9781841597652 Category: Tag:

Description

From tenth-century Japan’s Izumi Shikibu, colonial America’s Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England’s Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel’s Yehuda Amichai, Ireland’s Paul Muldoon, and Russia’s Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries and around the world have immortalized this elemental relationship. 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 Brontë’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.

Additional information

Weight 230 g
Dimensions 165 × 113 × 19 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

256

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

808.81935252 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K