Essential Love

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ISBN: 9780967555416 | 0967555418
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Copyright: 5/1/2000

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In this inspiring collection of vibrant poems, contemporary American poets speak out on a universal theme: the unbreakable bond shared by parents and their children. With kindness, nostalgia, forgiveness and love, poets recall their parents. Book jacket.

Snapshots

I Go Back to May 1937

(1)

Sharon Olds

Amniocentesis

(1)

B.A. St. Andrews

The Hosts

(1)

Peggy Hong

Newborn Night

(1)

Andrea Potos

Baby

(2)

DC Berry

Savannah Reigning

(1)

Todd Palmer

Waiting in the Hall for a Son Fighting in the Locker Room

(1)

Penelope Deakin

While We Rest

(2)

Thom Ward

The Window of My Parents

(1)

June Owens

The Violin Lesson

(1)

Richard Broderick

Having

(1)

Ginny Lowe Connors

My Son Who Can't Sit Still

(2)

Ginny Lowe Connors

The Day After My Son's Birthday

(2)

Sondra Zeidenstein

Admiring My Father

(1)

Thomas R. Smith

My Father's Picture on the Cover of a Buffalo Bison's Hockey Program for 1934

(1)

Peter Desy

After My Stepfather's Death

(1)

Wesley McNair

To My Father, Dying in a Supermarket

(2)

Wesley McNair

The Window, Autumn

(1)

William Reichard

Bloodroot

(1)

Simone Poirier-Bures

Birthday Celebration, Carl's Chop House, Detroit

(1)

Peter Desy

My Mother Who Can't

(1)

Lyn Lifshin

Driving Home to See the Folks

(2)

Anthony Sobin

Easter Sunday, 1955

(4)

Elizabeth Spires

Reaching Out and Letting Go

I Sit, Hypnotized by Storm

(2)

Liz Abrams-Morley

Worrywart

(1)

Victor M. Depta

Natural Buoyancy

(1)

Judith Strasser

The Artist's Way

(1)

Jane Butkin Roth

What My Mother Believed

(1)

Laura Stearns

If You Have Never Seen a Horse

(2)

Siv Cedering

When the Call Came

(2)

Norbert Krapf

Adoption

(1)

Crystal Williams

To My Boy, Asleep

(2)

Gianna Russo

The Far Country

(1)

Richard Hague

On Morgan Street

(2)

Anne McCrady

Cat's Cradle

(2)

Carol Wade Lundberg

What Is Supposed to Happen

(1)

Naomi Shihab Nye

Schoolward

(2)

Mark Defoe

Rearview Mirror

(1)

John Roderick

At the Crossroads

(2)

Mary Scott

Visitation Rites

(1)

Jack Myers

Room for Song

(1)

Mary Makofske

I Wish I Could Hold You as The Trees Hold Their Leaves

(1)

Ginny Lowe Connors

UnNesting

(2)

MaryLee McNeal

For Meg, Leaving Home

(1)

Netta Gillespie

From a Phone Booth

(1)

Margaret Diorio

To an Only Daughter

(1)

Tom Hansen

Now Daughter

(1)

Sondra Zeidenstein

To My Daughters

(1)

MaryLee McNeal

Annual Visit

(2)

Harold Black

My Father's Neckties

(4)

Maxine Kumin

Transitions

Womb

(2)

Corrine De Winter

Rain

(1)

Tara L. Masih

My Son Daniel Is Born and Wonders

(1)

Susan Thomas

My Baby

(1)

Janell Moon

Napoleon's Cigar

(2)

DC Berry

Masculinity Meets His Daughter

(2)

Todd Palmer

Jesse Teaches his Mother

(1)

Claudia Van Gerven

Girls

(1)

MaryLee McNeal

Screening

(2)

Ginnie Goulet Gavrin

The Month of June: 131/2

(1)

Sharon Olds

The Formality

(1)

Peter E. Murphy

Working Papers

(1)

Linda Simone

Rites of Passage

(1)

Barbara Crooker

The Knowing

(2)

Sue Ellen Thompson

I Forgot My Gloves

(1)

Krista Hauenstein

Wedding Day

(3)

Jacqueline Kudler

Stepfather

(2)

Michael Cleary

So Now

100

(2)

Carol Wade Lundberg

Childhood

102

(2)

Elizabeth Spires

Mothers and Daughters

104

(1)

Maude G. Meehan

Change of Seasons

105

(1)

Miriam Pederson

Christmas in Tucson

106

(2)

Jeff Worley

My Immigrant Mother Transplanted

108

(1)

Judy Kronenfeld

Live Long, Die Short

109

(4)

J.B. Bernstein

Responsibilities and Expectations

Giver of Forms

113

(1)

Robin L. Smith-Johnson

The Invention of Childhood

114

(1)

Stefan Kiesbye

Questions for My Grown Children

115

(1)

Maude Meehan

116

(2)

Doyle Wesley Walls

When Stillness Drops

118

(2)

Susan Clayton-Goldner

Scoured

120

(1)

David Starkey

Dads with Kids

121

(1)

Brian Daldorph

So There

122

(1)

Naomi Shahib Nye

First Chore

123

(1)

J.B. Safford

House Rules

124

(1)

Joanna C. Scott

Spiders Keep House

125

(2)

Susan Steger Welsh

Living Room

127

(1)

Floyd Skloot

Polishing Stones

128

(1)

June Owens

The Son

129

(1)

Constance Pultz

Making It in America

130

(5)

Penny Cagan

Tenderness

In Day Care

135

(1)

Victor M. Depta

First Love Letter

136

(2)

Gary Blankenburg

Essential Love

138

(1)

Rob Hardy

Perceptions

139

(2)

Marlaina B. Tanny

Baby by Day

141

(2)

Wyatt Townley

A Poem for Jesse

143

(2)

David Zeiger

For Alissa

145

(1)

Peter Cooley

How to Cut Your Child's Hair at Home

146

(1)

Rebekah Wolman

Orion's Belt

147

(2)

Ann E. Michael

Pre-Adolescence

149

(1)

Ann E. Michael

At Twelve

150

(2)

Elizabeth McLagan

My Son's Foot

152

(1)

Gayle Brandeis

Why Some Nights I Go to Bed Without Undressing

153

(1)

Elisavietta Ritchie

One True Life

154

(2)

Barbara Hendryson

Catching the Light

156

(2)

Susan Clayton-Goldner

When She Asks You

158

(2)

Candice Love

The Gift

160

(2)

Li-Young Lee

The Memory of Grace at Mr. Fontayne's Doughnut Shop

162

(2)

James M. Robbins

Bathing Mother

164

(5)

Mary Ann Wehler

Sickness and Healing

Agnostic and Son

169

(2)

Michael Cleary

My Son Telephones

171

(1)

Elizabeth Notter

Sick Child

172

(1)

Tim Giles

The Green Shirt

173

(2)

Sharon Olds

Days of Love

175

(1)

Mark Saba

Waiting

176

(1)

Maude G. Meehan

Thrice Elizabeth

177

(2)

Marlene S. Veach

Decibels

179

(2)

Rochelle Natt

Camping Out

181

(2)

Robin L. Smith-Johnson

All Day at 30 Degrees

183

(2)

Dixie Partridge

On a Young Man's Break

185

(2)

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky

In Sympathy, My Daughter Sleeps Beside Me

187

(2)

Paulette Roeske

Sitting in a Concrete Parking Garage

189

(2)

Greg Kosmicki

Chemotherapy

191

(2)

Liz Abrams-Morley

My Mother's Stroke

193

(1)

Kelly Cherry

Climbing the Mountain in Courage

194

(1)

Margaret Robinson

Aftermath

195

(1)

Dixie Partridge

Canoeing at Night with my Daughter on the Bay

196

(5)

David S. Herrstrom

Discoveries

In the Early Days of the War

201

(1)

Elisavietta Ritchie

Lesson One: Awareness

202

(1)

Susan Spilecki

Northern Light

203

(1)

William Reichard

Perspective

204

(1)

Barbara Crooker

My Daughter's Eyes

205

(1)

Andrea Potos

First Words

206

(1)

Joan I. Siegel

Teeth

207

(2)

Rebecca Baggett

Daniel and the Dust

209

(1)

Norbert Krapf

The Swimmer

210

(2)

Constance Egemo

Infant Care

212

(1)

Joel Long

A Father's Discovery

213

(1)

John Sangster

Firstborn Daughter Leaving Home

214

(2)

Mariah Hegarty

Flight Patterns

216

(2)

Marjorie Maddox

A Higher Loving

218

(2)

Laura Golden Bellotti

Learning How

220

(3)

Sally Croft

Joy and Pleasure

Postpartum

223

(1)

Barbara C. Behan

To the Same Listener

224

(3)

Wyatt Townley

Nestling

227

(1)

Connie Wasem

Father, You are Ancient

228

(1)

William Dickenson Cohen

Max, at Two Months

229

(1)

Julia K. Singer

To My Son, Laughing in his Sleep

230

(1)

Freya Manfred

Two A.M. Feeding

231

(1)

Edith Rylander

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

232

(1)

Galway Kinnell

Idolatry

233

(1)

DC Berry

Backscratch Boy

234

(1)

James P. Lenfestey

Frog Hunting

235

(1)

Peter Cooley

At the Sawmill

236

(1)

Anna Viadero

Braids

237

(1)

Miriam Pederson

Spring Training

238

(1)

Wendy Mnookin

The Old Life

239

(2)

Donald Hall

Watching Daddy Play Pinochle

241

(1)

Barbara Brent Brower

Rock N Roll

242

(1)

Tony Gloeggler

Apples and Oranges

243

(1)

Angela M. Mendez

Wedding Dress

244

(1)

Arlene Clayton Eager

Nourishment

245

(4)

Binnie Pasquier

Anger and Grief

Water Walk

249

(2)

Wendy Mnookin

The White Boat

251

(2)

Judith H. Montgomery

Sister's Drawings after Little Brother's Death, III

253

(1)

Rawdon Tomlinson

To a Child, a Spring Poem

254

(1)

Peter Cooley

Conversation with an Unborn Child

255

(2)

Peggy Hong

The Last Star

257

(2)

Gail Ghai

Our Lady of the Snows

259

(1)

Robert Hass

Breakfast with my Father

260

(1)

Deborah Casillas

In the Clerestory of Leaves

261

(1)

Barbara Crooker

Doing Homework with a Learning Disabled Child

262

(2)

Ginnie G. Gavrin

A Balding Father

264

(2)

John Grey

Daddy

266

(1)

Sharon Scholl

Elegy for my Father

267

(1)

Sylvia Ryan

Cuttings

268

(2)

Jane Butkin Roth

Remorse

270

(1)

Joan I. Siegel

My Daughter's Anger

271

(1)

Rebecca Baggett

Tears for a Daughter

272

(1)

Linda Tanner Ardison

Lost and Found

273

(1)

CB Follett

Lullaby for 17

274

(2)

Linda Pastan

Lost

276

(1)

Edwin Romond

Flying Home

277

(1)

Alice Friman

The Time is Midnight

278

(1)

Marjorie Maddox

Duet for One Voice

279

(3)

Linda Pastan

Letter Poem

282

(3)

Margaret Robinson

Legacies

Mid-life

285

(1)

Marjorie Buettner

Rebellion

286

(2)

Dorothy K. Fletcher

Summer Thunderstorm

288

(2)

Mary Scott

Fun Dad

290

(3)

Laura Golden Bellotti

Father's Diagnosis: Naming Names

293

(2)

David Chura

Tattoos

295

(1)

Michael S. Smith

Moment

296

(1)

Irene Roach

Replication

297

(1)

Elizabeth Notter

Reconnaissance

298

(1)

Gay Davidson-Zieiske

New Testament

299

(1)

William Greenway

Fatherblood

300

(1)

Albert DeGenova

Hands Like Daddy

301

(2)

Steve Anderson

Lineal Present

303

(1)

Joan Marie Wood

Letter to a Young Child

304

(2)

Rasma Haidri

Good Stock

306

(1)

Mary Scott

Gift

307

(2)

Maureen Flannery

Wildflowers

309

(1)

Bernice Rendrick

Transplanting Peonies

310

(1)

Stuart Gravatt

Heirloom

311

(1)

Rasma Haidri

Why I Write in Trees

312

(1)

Kelly Cass Falzone

If Fathers Speak

313

(2)

Russell Clay

Last Will

315

(2)

Linda Pastan

About the Contributors

317

(26)

Acknowledgments

343

(10)

Index of Contributors

353

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