Books : Essential Love : Poems About Mothers and Fathers, Daughters and Sons
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.540803520431
EAN: 9780967555423
ISBN: 0967555426
Label: Grayson Books
Manufacturer: Grayson Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 358
Publication Date: May 14, 2000
Publisher: Grayson Books
Sales Rank: 955244
Studio: Grayson Books
Editorial Review:
Book Description:
Approximately 150 contemporary American poets explore many facets of the relationship between parents and their children in this moving collection. These poems by prominent poets such as Donald Hall, Robert Hass, Maxine Kumin, Galway Kinnell and Sharon Olds, as well as by a number of emerging poets, show the joys, the griefs, the milestones and the mysteries that arise between parents and their children as they travel through life, inescapably bound together by an essential love.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Terrific collection, depth and staying power!
Esential Love is an anthology that looks at parents and their children from many angles. The book covers many facets of the parent and child relationship, from parenting a newborn to navigating adolescence to watching a grown child marry. It also features writers looking back at their own childhoods and writing about the evolution of relationships as people relate to their elderly parents. This is a strong collection of poetry by some of our best contemporary poets, as well as by some poets that ... Read More
Rating:  - Poetry of Non-Essential Love
I bought this book to read poems about parents love for their children and sacrifices of parents for their children; instead I found a collection of limericks with no taste. The title of the book is highly misleading. Do we really need to have poetry about; giving mother a bath (Bathing Mother by Mary Ann Wehler); or to My Father, Dying in a Supermarket by Wesley McNair? Poems such as; What My Mother Believed by Laura Stearns; and Admiring My Father by Thomas Smith stand out as exceptions. They offer ... Read More
Rating: - The reader will readily recognize themselves
Essential Love: Poems About Mothers And Fathers, Daughters And Sons showcases some 150 contemporary American poets as they explore diverse facets of the relationship between parents and children. The poetry reflects joy and grief, milestones and mysteries, the bonds of blood and kinship, and celebrates familial love that endures a lifetime. The reader will readily recognize themselves and their own loved ones in this compendium of memorable poetry. Mothers And Daughters: There is a cord between us/not ... Read More
Rating: - A Rich Celebration of the Bonds Between Parents and Children
In ESSENTIAL LOVE, Ginny Lowe Connors has succeeded in organizing an outstanding collection of rich and diverse poems about the relationships between parents and children. The poems are written in accessible language, easily understood, yet rich, bold and poignant. Poems are included by award-winning authors, as well as lesser known poets. The diverse works express the many facets of parenthood and childhood, from joys, mystery and wonder, to hardships, pain and unending worries. The book is a celebration ... Read More
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