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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805082319
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Mother Poems written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems in which a daughter reflects on the death of her beloved mother.
Author : Maurice Kenny
Publisher : White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781893996977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Mama Poems written by Maurice Kenny and published by White Pine Press (NY). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects more than thirty poems about family by Mohawk poet Maurice Kenny.
Author : Jessica Urlichs
Publisher : Jessica Urlichs: Early Motherhood Poetry & Prose Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780473622848
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)
Download or read book All I See Is You written by Jessica Urlichs and published by Jessica Urlichs: Early Motherhood Poetry & Prose Collection. This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Hardback includes bonus pages of additional poetry!** "Oh, how the days are long it's true Yesterdays are many But todays are a few So I'll fill them up With all of you And simply be, Here With you. "'All I See Is You', captures the heartfelt and honest moments of early motherhood. Jessica's words encompass the highs and the lows, the raw and the vulnerable and everything in between. It's the kind of book you want on your bedside sitting next to the bottles or breast pump. This book of 60 poems and proses will take mothers on a journey of healing and growth with a powerful affirmation that you are not alone. A popular gift around the world for expectant mother's, new mother's and mothers with grown children. There are words in here for everyone. "Jessica found a way to put into words the very soul of motherhood'. "This writer writes as though she's taken the words out of every mother's head... the feelings that most mothers will experience but can't always express. So relatable, so beautiful, sometimes funny and often emotional, I challenge you not to get teary eyed!" "Thank you for your poems, your writing makes me feel human again". Jessica's poetry books have sold tens of thousands around the world. 'All I See Is You', is Jessica's second in her collection of poetry, with 'From One Mom to a Mother' being her first and 'My After All', the final in her collection. Jessica is also a best selling author of 'The Rainbow In My Heart', a picture book on emotions. Jess's poems can also be found on Etsy! www.jessicaurlichs.com
Author : Marilyn Nelson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807112502
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Mama's Promises written by Marilyn Nelson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1985-09-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Waniek is a poet of intelligence, passion, and gentleness with a fine sense of the comic and unfailing judgment about what constitutes a poetic line. She creates a rich mixture of impressions about the speaker of these poems as a woman who is at the same time in her mid-twenties and her mid-fifties, who is black and white and red, who is both trapped by and freed by motherhood.” —Miller Williams Marilyn Nelson Waniek writes with great wisdom and compassion. Grounded but never earthbound, her poems speak honestly and eloquently about giving birth, nurturing life, and facing death; they inhabit the present, fully aware of their responsibilities to the past and the future. Waniek leaves us with the affecting strength and assurance of lasting things, as in the poem “Mama’s Promise.” But the dangerous highway curves through blue evenings when I hold his yielding hand and snip his minuscule nails with my vicious-looking scissors. I carry him around like an egg in a spoon, and I remember a porcelain fawn, a best friend’s trust, my broken faith in myself. It’s not my grace that keeps me erect as the sidewalk clatters downhill under my rollerskate wheels. Then I think of Mama, her bountiful breasts. When I was a child, I really swear, Mama’s kisses could heal. I remember her promise, and whisper it over my sweet son’s sleep: When you float to the bottom, child, like a mote down a sunbeam, you’ll see me from a trillion miles away: my eyes looking upon you, my arms outstretched for you like night. From “Mama’s Promise” published in Mama’s Promises by Marilyn Nelson. Copyright © 1985 by Marilyn Nelson Waniek. All rights reserved.
Author : Bunmi Laditan
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1488038589
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Dear Mother written by Bunmi Laditan and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of poetry from Bunmi Laditan, bestselling author of Confessions of a Domestic Failure and creator of The Honest Toddler, capturing the honesty, rawness, sheer joy and total madness of motherhood. With the compassion and wit that have made her a social media sensation among mothers around the world, Bunmi Laditan puts into evocative and relatable words what so many of us feel but can’t quite express. For mothers who love their children with a fiery fierceness but know what it is to feel crushed at the end of those long days, Dear Mother is like a warm hug that says, “I get it.”
Author : Sandra M Gilbert
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393037715
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Mothersongs written by Sandra M Gilbert and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-05-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MotherSongs, a unique collection of verse about maternity and the celebration of motherhood, opens with poems about pregnancy, labor, delivery, and nursing and moves to poems about women raising children, delighting in their growth or mourning their loss. Includes works by such artists as Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Walt Whitman and others.
Author : B. Elizabeth Beck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Summer Tour written by B. Elizabeth Beck and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer Adventure with Phish. Follow these characters as they jump on the train for Summer Tour '19. When Sam Abernathy spends the summer in Maywood, Ohio in the Calico House with his Aunt Karen, he meets a group of phans who change his life. Chris serves as Captain, ala Neal Cassady. Claire is an artist who installs her work at SPAC. Taylor is a poet and Alex holds down the group as wise sage. Augmented with set lists and detailed show accounts, this piece of fiction reads like memoir. A must-read for any Phish Phan.
Author : Jessica Urlichs
Publisher : Jessica Urlichs: Early Motherhood Poetry & Prose Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780473619770
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (197 download)
Download or read book From One Mom to a Mother written by Jessica Urlichs and published by Jessica Urlichs: Early Motherhood Poetry & Prose Collection. This book was released on 2022-02-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Hardback includes 20 bonus pages of additional poetry!** "I want to tell you everything I know carry you and guide you yet somehow, as your tiny finger points to things in wonder and your eyes meet mine the paradigm shifts I once thought I was to show you the world when all along you came to show me." Poignant, raw and beautifully honest pieces on motherhood. This book comprises 55 poems and prose including viral pieces, 'Dear Mama' & 'I Would Tell Her'. Jessica Urlichs shares her truths from a vulnerable place of becoming a new Mother. Written from the heart, Jessica's words are inspirational and relatable. 'From One Mom to a Mother' is written in a refreshingly honest tone that will touch the soul of so many on this same beautiful, yet challenging journey. Whether you laugh or cry you will put it down feeling less alone and having made a friend in a book . Jessica shares her passion and love for her children on this tale of self discovery, that two people were born that day. "Your writing can bring a tear to my eyes or a smile to my face, it really helps me feel less alone". "You put words to feelings I didn't know I had". "I've never read such incredible words like you write to describe becoming a mother and being a mother" "Your book and words have saved me over and over again" 'From One Mom to a Mother' is the first book in Jess's collection of poetry with 'All I See is You' being her second and her third and final in the series, 'My After All'. Combined, Jess's poetry books have sold tens of thousands worldwide. Jessica is also a best selling author of 'The Rainbow In My Heart', a children's picture book on emotions. Jess's poems can also be found on Etsy! www.jessicaurlichs.com
Author : Aja Monet
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608467686
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter written by Aja Monet and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am 27 and have never killed a man but I know the face of death as if heirloom my country memorizes murder as lullaby —from “For Fahd” Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet’s ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemented by striking cover art from Carrie Mae Weems, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy. Praise for Aja Monet: ““[Monet] is the true definition of an artist.” —Harry Belafonte ““In Paris, she walked out onto the stage, opened her mouth and spoke. At the first utterance I heard that rare something that said this is special and knew immediately that Aja Monet was one of the Ones who will mark the sound of the ages. She brings depth of voice to the voiceless, and through her we sing a powerful song.” —Carrie Mae Weems Of Cuban-Jamaican descent, Aja Monet is an internationally established poet, performer, singer, songwriter, educator, and human rights advocate. Monet is also the youngest person to win the legendary Nuyorican Poet’s Café Grand Slam title.
Author : Mary Korzan
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740741920
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (419 download)
Download or read book When You Thought I Wasn't Looking written by Mary Korzan and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Rita Schilke Korzan wrote a poem to her mother 24 years ago, thanking her for all she had done as a mother, friend, and role model. She gave the poem to her mother and, a few months later, offered it as a tribute when Mary and her husband were married. So many wedding guests asked for a copy that Mary included one in her thank-you notes.Then began the strange and heartwarming journey of Mary's poem to her mom. Friends passed it on to those they knew. A minister in her hometown couldn't recall who gave it to him, but he included the by-then "anonymously written" poem in his book about loving others. Another author picked it up from there for her compilation of heartfelt works, and Mary finally noticed her poem, now listed as "Author Unknown," in A Fourth Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul, which her husband and children gave her as a Mother's Day gift.With this new book, readers have the chance to experience When You Thought I Wasn't Looking in its entirety and from its creator. This is the special kind of book that reminds us that sometimes the little things we do "just because" mean more to someone than we can ever know. Those little things teach love, compassion, and understanding. In other words, they're priceless. This sweet gift book brings that lesson home to the heart.
Author : Brenda Shaughnessy
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320282
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Our Andromeda written by Brenda Shaughnessy and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A heady, infectious celebration."—The New Yorker "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."—Harvard Review Brenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects—trauma, childbirth, loss of faith—and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new rules, she imagines a parallel existence in the galaxy of Andromeda. From "Our Andromeda": Cal, faster than the lightest light, so much faster than love, and our Andromeda, that dream, I can feel it living in us like we are its home. Like it remembers us from its own childhood. Oh, maybe, Cal, we are home, if God will let us live here, with Andromeda inside us, doesn't it seem we belong? Now and then, will you help me belong here, in this place where you became my child, and I your mother out of some instant of mystery of crash and matter . . . Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy (FSG, 1999). Shaughnessy’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harper's, The Nation, The Rumpus, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son and daughter.
Author : Lesléa Newman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692277058
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)
Download or read book I Carry My Mother written by Lesléa Newman and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Carry My Mother is a book-length cycle of poems that explores a daughter's journey through her mother's illness and death. From diagnosis through yahrtzeit (one-year anniversary), the narrator grapples with what it means to lose a mother. The poems, written in a variety of forms (sonnet, pantoum, villanelle, sestina, terza rima, haiku, and others) are finely crafted, completely accessible, and full of startling, poignant, and powerful imagery. These poems will resonant with all who have lost a parent, relative, spouse, friend, or anyone whom they dearly love. In a passionate book, Lesléa Newman chronicles her mother's dying and the phases of her own grieving. She fuses an unsparing realism with lyrical intensity, in honest, direct, clear language, in mostly rhymed stanzas. The pages seem to tremble with an accurate description of changing emotional states, all born of the closeness, humor, and love in the mother-daughter relationship. -Naomi Replansky, author of The Dangerous World and Collected Poems. After the introductory poem I thought 'oh dear, I'm going to cry my way through the whole thing.' And then, the exquisite first-rate poetry-using forms like triolet and rondeau-took me to a much deeper place than tears can possibly reveal. This is a very beautiful book. -Judy Grahn, author of A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet. Throughout her long career, Lesléa Newman has distinguished herself by diving deep into the essentials of life and delivering them with a light touch. The poems in her new collection, I Carry My Mother, are both light and dark. They are small rituals that draw us closer to the child within, revealing the complex love between a vivacious mother and an independent daughter. Each verse is a spiritual chant; each line is a lyric glistening with grief. -Jewelle Gomez, author ofThe Gilda Stories and Oral Tradition. Using forms inspired by poets ranging from Wallace Stevens to Dr. Seuss, from Sir Philip Sidney to Elizabeth Bishop, Lesléa Newman's heartfelt poems are a loving tribute to her mother. The poems move back and forth between precise images of her mother in life-"her tiny feet/Her toenails painted candy-apple red," -and images of her mother as she dies-"a tiny, mottled lump of clay." I Carry My Mother allows us to look into a deeply personal portrait of a mother and daughter who are so much alike that when the daughter looks into the mirror, "my mother stares back." In the dedication, Newman writes, "may her memory be a blessing." These poems evoke and preserve those memories, showing how love lives on after death. -Ellen Bass, author ofLike a Beggar and The Human Line
Author : Lynnell Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937968632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (686 download)
Download or read book This Great Green Valley written by Lynnell Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Genius loci." The pervading spirit of a place. This little book from Lynnell Edwards is all about the spirit of a very specific place, in this case the environs of central Kentucky, and she writes about this place in two very different times, in two very different styles. So different, in fact, that one might first wonder what the two parts of the book have in common. The answer, of course, is genius loci. In the original Roman use of the term, "spirit" meant the protective deity of a place. And in pioneer Kentucky, a place that Edwards's McAfee ancestors helped to settle, that deity could be cruel. The historical narrative poems in the first part of the book recount many instances of hardship and violence, both as experienced by white settlers, and as dealt by them upon the Native Americans from whom they "conquered" this place. So harsh a place, in fact, that Governor Patrick Henry (when this land was still part of Virginia) begged his own sister, "Pray don't go to Kentuckie to live." But many did, and endured. In the more contemporary sense, "spirit" means the unique sense and feel of a place, and in the second part of this book Edwards captures that spirit through her lyrical recollections of boating on the Kentucky River with her family, in her childhood, when she could imagine herself a "mermaid, my hair loosed / and living as tall field grass / drifting in the summer air, / white hands luminous / and slow, parting / the water below, open eyes / peering / into silence, the dark distance." In effect she becomes, in this moment at least, the spirit of the place. A part of its deep past. The violence of history, and the beauty and peace of nature. Edwards understands that both are present in the story of Kentucky, and of our nation as a whole, and she expresses both eloquently through the poetry here. Her love of this place is palpable, but it is no naive love. She knows what it has cost, and she knows that it is fragile. Like the ancient limestone palisades along the Kentucky River, her words serve as a "record of what our great green Earth once was, and where, if we can keep it, we might still find our place."
Author : Gary Morris
Publisher : Blue Mountain Arts
ISBN 13 : 9780883964750
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (647 download)
Download or read book I Love You, Mom written by Gary Morris and published by Blue Mountain Arts. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together some of the best contemporary poetry and writings about a mother and her importance in our lives, in a special hardcover edition destined to be treasured by mothrs everywherefor many years to come.
Author : Jennifer Givhan
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807165417
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Landscape with Headless Mama written by Jennifer Givhan and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pardon me, but I’m shivering a bit at my core. These are restless, storm-hued stanzas, revelations of our dark cravings and hapless, woefully imperfect attempts at perfect love. Here are the dreams even our dreams won’t reveal, flaunting wild edges and endings that nudge the soul, each fusing of lyric and lesson as potent as a backhand slap. And Mama watches everything. Mama sees it all.” – Patricia Smith “What’s living without fear of getting lost?” That’s only one of many empowering moments in Jennifer Givhan’s auspicious debut. Her “blood magic” ink delivers the hard truths that kick-start the healing of the “splintered cactus” that hurdles the path of a woman’s journey. Landscape with Headless Mama blossoms with the “strange alloys of sadness” that devastate motherhood and femininity, and then nurture their wounds back to vibrant life.” – Rigoberto González “In Jennifer Givhan’s Landscape with Headless Mama, the vivid truth of these poems evokes both the wince of pain and the head-rush of joy, the familial and the romantic disconnections we endure and those connections found in the same terrain that we, still, manage to cherish. If there’s a line in these poems that doesn’t surprise, I couldn’t find it; one never knows where the poem will take us. I found myself tracing “maps of the borderland into my body/ cliff dwelling, the taste of red brick on the tongue....” Each figure rendered, each voice conjured comes to life with their distinct journey, and Givhan continues to remind us of yet another truth: “There are other ways for the story to end.” Indeed, the possibilities seem limitless in this world she builds. If a collection of poems can be called a page-turner, this is what it feels like.” – A. Van Jordan “These are true border poems, restlessly crossing between the real and the surreal, the loved and the used up, the fertile and the infertile, and the hungry and the sated. Jennifer Givhan is a dangerous poet in all the necessary ways.”–Connie Voisine Landscape with Headless Mama explores the experiences of becoming and being a mother through the lens of dark fairy tales. Describing the book as “a surreal survival guide,” Givhan draws from the southwestern desert, incorporating Latin American fine art and folkloric influences. Drawing inspiration from Gloria Anzaldúa, Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, tattoo artists, and comic book heroes, among other sources, this is a book of intelligence, humor, deep feeling, and, above all, duende.
Author : Osa Hidalgo de la Riva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945521041
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Mama Sappho written by Osa Hidalgo de la Riva and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAMA SAPPHO: Poems de Sabor a Caló, is a collection of poetry written during the 1970s by a X(x)icanX(x) lesbiana Osa-T. Osa Hidalgo de la Riva-, between the ages of her teen years and early twenties. Originally, the manuscript was entitled WITH POEMS as GUNS, and was performed on tour with her lesbiana poet sister Liz at some of the first battered women's shelters, women's cafés and bookstores throughout Aztlán, the U.S. Southwest. After their tour, both sisters completed their Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Psychology, and Dr. Osa Bear went on to complete her first (of three) Master of Arts Degree with this collection as her written creative master's thesis in May 1980. Published in book form 38 years later, MAMA SAPPHO includes also the author's Poetic Afterword, an essay that reads as fierce manifesto. A truly timeless-or time-expansive-collection, MAMA SAPPHO could have read as contemporary poetry in any of the four decades it has traversed since taking its thesis form, and will surely read as such in the four decades to come.
Author : Karen McMillan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838444600
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Mother Truths: Poems on Early Motherhood written by Karen McMillan and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Truths is a beautiful, funny, and raw collection of poetry about early motherhood. The perfect gift for expectant mothers and new mums.
