| Mothersongs: Poems For, By, and about Mothers Contributor(s): Gilbert, Sandra M. (Editor), Gubar, Susan (Editor), O'Hehir, Diana (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393037711 ISBN-13: 9780393037715 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1995 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.008 |
| LCCN: 94042757 |
| Physical Information: 1.26" H x 5.28" W x 7.5" (0.99 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Holiday - Mother's Day |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The editors have included traditional ballads about maternity and courtly elegies for or by mothers as well as landmark nineteenth-century tributes to mothers and early twentieth-century meditations on motherhood. MotherSongs 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. The volume then turns to poems by sons and daughters who remember mama. Mythic mothers and mother goddesses, moral or political reflections on maternity, and philosophical analyses of the meaning of motherhood are also represented. Taken together, the works collected here bear witness to the powerful ways in which motherhood has been transformed into art and artistry has been shaped by maternity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gubar, Susan: - Susan Gubar was awarded, with Sandra M. Gilbert, the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Book Critics Circle. She is the author of Memoir of a Debulked Woman and has authored and edited numerous works of criticism. She writes the monthly online New York Times column "Living with Cancer" and lives in Bloomington, Indiana.Gilbert, Sandra M.: - Sandra M. Gilbert is a distinguished literary critic, professor, and poet. She lives in Berkeley, CA. |