| Not for Mothers Only Contributor(s): Wagner, Catherine (Editor), Wolff, Rebecca (Editor), Ostriker, Alicia (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0977106489 ISBN-13: 9780977106486 Publisher: Fence Books OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2007 Annotation: The experiences of motherhood are not to be met with silence and/or platitudes. This anthology brings to light the many strong, scary, gorgeous motherhood poems being written right now--poems that address the politics and difficulties and stubborn satisfactions of mothering--while it reminds us of earlier poems that opened the space in which this new work might appear. Motherhood is a universal solvent: Contributors to this anthology come from all over the aesthetic map, and from different states of childgetting--adoption, single parenthood, new mothers, mothers of adults. Not for Mothers Only will abolish any comfortable prejudices about what poems on motherhood can or cannot do or say. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.508 |
| LCCN: 2007922314 |
| Physical Information: 1.55" H x 6.37" W x 8" (1.58 lbs) 546 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The poets in this anthology have been ravished, whacked, illuminated, blown away by the experience of motherhood. The thousand experiences. The thousand interruptions. The fact that it is never what we expected, and that it is overwhelmingly intense.--Alicia Ostriker, from the foreword |