| Description |
xxi, 504 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Contents |
LULU "The bold past sashed with light" / Lucile Adler -- Blue dress / Andrea Barrett -- Ugliful / Lynda Barry -- As if I am you / Meg Belichick -- Untitled / Anne Bernays -- My dear Republican mother / Carol Bly -- Standing in two places / Sally Ryder Brady -- The horoscope promises me a mother's gift / Jill Breckenridge -- Untitled / Rita Mae Brown -- A natural gift / Rosellen Brown -- Thicker than blood / Elizabeth Brundage -- Ordinary gifts / Lillian Castillo-Speed -- Querida Mami / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Dear Mama : words having failed / Wanda Coleman -- Letters to Mama from Cottonwood / Lynn Doiron -- Little song for my mother / Rita Dove -- I'm the mother / Tess Enroth -- |
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If only / Connie May Fowler -- The way things go / Joan Frank -- Call home / Lynn Freed -- A secret gladness / Carol Frost -- Boxes / Deborah Galyan -- Unnaming the flowers / Sonia Gernes -- Untitled / Ellen Gilchrist -- Untitled / Natalie Goldberg -- Untitled / Susan Griffin -- Rotten mothers / Jan Haag -- Loving dogwood / Joan Joffe Hall -- Untitled / Phebe Hanson -- The immensity of your gift / Joy Harjo -- Something ordinary / Mary Hebert -- And yet you will weep and know why / Kathryn Hohlwein -- Sylvia on Sunday / Nicole Hollander -- At my table / Ann Hood -- Your old torch songs / Pam Houston -- White moths / Laura Kasischke -- To my mother on her seventy-sixth birthday / Susan Kelley-DeWitt -- Untitled / Barbara Kingsolver -- |
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Alone in Heaven / Clysta Kinstler -- Untitled / Carolyn Kizer -- A crown of sonnets, in memory of my mother / Maxine Kumin -- Out of silence / Anne D. LeClaire -- To Elynore / Suzanne Lipsett -- Writing Eva / Margot Livesey -- The bird and the rose / Mary Mackey -- Looking back in wonder / Njoki McElroy -- To my mother / Sandra McPherson -- Untitled / Joanne Meschery -- Lively in her soul / Mary Moore -- Every mother knows a coyote / Nora Naranjo-Morse -- Everything you said, stayed / Naomi Shihab Nye -- A letter to my mother Carolina Oates on her 78th birthday / Joyce Carol Oates -- Time left / Carole Simmons Oles -- Notes to my mother / Linda Pastan -- Voices after dark / Marge Piercy -- Reunion / Susan Power -- A love story / Dawn Raffel -- |
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Missed / Jane Reavill Ransom -- Between the lines / Linda Raymond -- To my mother / Annie Reiner -- Untitled / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Untitled / Carolyn See -- Untitled / Ntozake Shange -- Mother, I am listening / Dani Shapiro -- How your life fascinated me / Carol Shields -- Vigil without words / Enid Shomer -- Supper alone / Louise Farmer Smith -- My vocation / Donna Baier Stein -- Not skin deep - heart deep / Susan Straight -- Letter from Hilo / Joan Swift -- The impossibly good mother / Shari Thurber -- Madre de mi alma / Alma Luz Villanueva -- My hang-up / Joyce Wadler -- Where'd you come from? / Constance Warlow -- Everything I know / Lynna Williams -- The oldest orphan in America / Hilma Wolitzer -- This should've been your trip / Irene Zabytko -- |
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I grudge you the mothertalk / Mary Zeppa -- For the time being / Feenie Ziner. |
| Summary |
"In this extraordinary collection of original letters written especially for this volume, more than seventy-five distinguished daughters, including Joyce Carol Oates, Barbara Kingsolver, Ntozake Shange, and Hilma Wolitzer, speak to their mothers, both living and deceased, with messages that come straight from the heart."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence.
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Women authors, American -- Correspondence.
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American letters.
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| Added Author |
Warloe, Constance.
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| ISBN |
0671563246 |
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9780671563240 |
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