Fathers a Collection of Poems
- List Price: $10.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: St Martins Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/1999
Description:
To be published for Father's Day, Fathers is a moving, heart-felt collection of poems about fathers for children, wives, and fathers themselves. Included in this all-encompassing handsome volume are the timeless poems of 120 of America's best known poets, including Raymond Carver, Gwendolyn Brooks, Louise Gluck, Charles Simic, Robert Phillips and Rachel Hadas. Fathers who were nurturing and influential presences in their children's lives are celebrated here, but others are remembered for their absence through death or desertion.
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Both daughters and sons are here, both heroes and anti-heroes, abusers and defenders, victims and persecutors, as well as those that saw them as nothing more than nuisances. In this brilliant collection, more than 120 poets convey love, understanding, and forgiveness through poems that run the gamut of emotions from funny to heartrending to tragic.
Poets and their poems include:
-- Robert Bly's My Father at Eighty-Five
-- Hayden Carruth's Words for My Daughter from the Asylum
-- Tom Crawford's My Father the Inventor
-- Rita Dove's Grape Sherbert
-- Margaret Randall's Thick as Honest Memory
-- Larry Rubin's The Druggist
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
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