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| Genre/Form: | Literary collections |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Our mothers, our selves. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1996 (OCoLC)761390952 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen J Donnelly; J B Bernstein |
| ISBN: | 0897894456 9780897894456 |
| OCLC Number: | 32969585 |
| Description: | xv, 246 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Karen J. Donnelly and J. B. Bernstein -- The Moment the Two Worlds Meet / Sharon Olds -- from A Street in Bronzeville / Gwendolyn Brooks -- How to Live / Meryl Shader -- Miscarriage / Rawdon Tomlinson -- With Child / Mary Connor Ralph -- Lines For One As Yet Unnamed / Harry Brody -- Fist First / C. D. Runyon -- The Bearing Woman / Judith A. Downey -- Infant Burial Room, Wupatki / Felicia Mitchell -- Even after death, I will not forget how a newborn huffs and puffs when sitting slumped over / Hilda Downer -- Not a Trace / Jan Frazier -- Cambodia / Alicia Ostriker -- Morning Song / Sylvia Plath -- Stumbling into Motherhood: A Few Words About Bonding & Mother-Women / T. J. Banks -- Ironing / Judith Minty -- On the Inside / Elize Monroe -- After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed / Rita Dove -- Crack in the World / Anne Waldman -- What to Tell the Kids / Linda Vernon -- But how? / Karen J. Donnelly -- Yes, It is Possible to Love a Child Who Doesn't Have Your Eyes / Esther Cohen -- Motherless / Carol Corda -- Brothers and Sons / Gus Pelletier -- Loving Across State Lines / Meg Mott -- The Glass Half Empty / Anna Quindlen -- Awaiting the Arrival of the Witch / Deborah Shouse -- Ghost Child / Joanne Lewis Sears -- Learning the Firebird Suite / Nancy B. Miller -- That's My Girl / Marael Johnson -- The Blessing / Carolyn Kizer -- Cornucopia / Frank Miller -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (excerpt) / Maya Angelou -- Reasons... / Sue Walker -- The Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Nursing the Adopted Child: A Different Pace of Bonding / Lisa Gayle -- Sitting With My Mother and Father / Robert Bly -- Bending Over Roses at Twilight / Franz Douskey -- Mercy Killing / Margaret Fulton -- Women and Other Mothers / Sarah Morgan -- Spring of '42 / Peter Desy -- The Body Market / Elizabeth Cohen -- Foreword from The Measure of Our Success / Jonah Martin Edelman -- Mother's Voice / Robert Creeley -- Autumn Roses / Elizabeth Engstrom -- Passing Away / Dusty Sklar -- Breast Fed / Larry Schug -- The Annuity / Marge Piercy -- What She Left Me / Judy Doenges -- Rubberband Dances / Delisa Heiman -- Shooters / Leo Connellan -- Writing My Mother's Life / Elayne Clift -- Feminism, Art, and My Mother Sylvia / Andrea Dworkin -- Going Deeper into the Album / Larry Rubin -- On Learning of the Death of My Great-Grandmother in Childbirth at Age 18 / Em Case (Droppo) -- Grandmother / Ruth Harriet Jacobs -- Making the Wine / Marisa Labozzetta -- Dead Baby Speaks / Toi Derricotte -- 50 Mothers of a Renowned Wolf / Evelyn Roehl -- Beautiful Bellies / Daryn Stier -- Mother and Daughter, A Dynamic Duo Indeed / Jackie Fitzpatrick -- Heat / Jameson Currier -- Two Poems / Tom Baer -- The Scorpion Wore Pink Shoes / Janice Levy -- Mommy Wars / Kim Hirsh -- Real Enough / Alison McGhee -- The Child Has Seen the Wind / John Grey -- Tito Fuentes, Topps #177, 1967 / Frank Van Zant -- Life Ain't Never Settled / LaVonne Dressinia McIver -- Conception / Galway Kinnell -- Giving Birth / Margaret Atwood -- Mother's Milk: A Dairy Tale / Gayle Brandeis -- The Woman With the Wild-Grown Hair Keeps Her Vigil / Nita Penfold -- Like Her Uterus Ripped Out / Lonna Lisa Williams -- The Fault / Sandra Zeidenstein -- Small Things / Sarah Willis -- The Christmas Ritual / Susan Clayton-Goldner -- from 7 Folk Songs with Refrains / Vainis Alexsa -- Black Bear Eating Salmon / George Keithley -- Child Has No Say / Ellen Goodman -- After-Shock / J. B. Bernstein -- Breast Feeding / Neil Carpathios -- The Last Wild Horses in Tennessee / Vivien Shipley -- The Envelope / Maxine Kumin. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Karen J. Donnelly and J.B. Bernstein. |
Abstract:
Finally, we have an inclusive collection that brings motherhood into the fold of feminism. As we accede to our universal origins in the mother, we witness the infinite variety of experiences awarded the offspring. Spectrums of gender, race, age, religion, class, and nation give voice in Donnelly and Bernstein's anthology as more than 80 writers contribute poetry, essays, memoirs, and short fiction. Some of the artists are well-known, including Maya Angelou, Galway.
Kinnel, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Robert Bly, while others are less known. All attest to the experience of motherhood as primal.
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