Roots & flowers : poets and poems on family / edited by Liz Rosenberg.
Forty poets tell us about family and poetry, show us pictures, and then offer poems about all the transitions that come with being a son or daughter, a brother or sister, a parent or grandparent. As their parents age and their children grow, the poets in this collection capture those moments of chan...
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| Other title: | Roots and flowers. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt and Company,
2001.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Last thing I say from To an adolescent weeping willow / Marvin Bell
- For my son Noah, ten years old / Robert Bly
- Home from work / David Bosnik
- Entire dilemma / Michael Burkard
- My father's note ; China cupboard and coal furnace / David Chin
- Letter to Mother / Victoria Clausi
- No map / Stephen Dobyns
- Arturo ; Letter to my mother: past due ; My son tells me not to wear my poets' clothes ; Heritage / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Taking my son to school / Eamon Grennan
- My son, my executioner / Donald Hall
- Attic / Marie Howe
- Memory / Adrienne E. Ianniello
- Ballad for Dave ; Plain poplar ; Secret love / Milton Kessler / For my great grandfather: message long overdue / Maxine Kumin
- Jounal for my daughter ; My mother's pears / Stanley Kunitz
- My son skating on Doane's lake / Greg Kuzma
- Genesis / Rich Landers
- Wolves / Shara McCallum
- For Angela ; Winter of the stories / Margaret K. Menges
- My father ; Bronx park east / Jerry Mirskin
- On that day ; Pietro / Greg Moglia
- Seeing my parents in New York ; Uncles / Kyoko Mori
- Our father's image / Megeen Mulholland
- Weariness ; In the class for giving birth / Howard Nelson
- Wedding cake ; How far is it to the land we left ; Genetics / Naomi Shihab Nye
- Notes from the delivery room ; Real story / Linda Pastan
- Unemployed mami / Willie perdomo
- Playground / Katha Pollitt
- White slip ; How quickly, how early / Liz Rosenberg
- Hush / David St. John
- Leaving you / Kate Schmitt
- Monte ; Turtle story / Henry M. Seiden
- Because he wasn't ; Because one is always leaving / Jason Schinder
- Worry at the end of the month / Gary Soto
- Her story / Bettye Spinn
- Waving goodbye / Gerald Stern
- Touched / Deborah Tall
- Instructions on climbing your father's garage / Philip Terman
- Peach blossom snow from Learning to Dance ; Camping out in the back yard / Antonio Vallone
- Saturday in Chinatown / Li-Shen Yun.