Approximately 150 contemporary American poets explore many facets of the relationship between parents and their children in this moving collection. These poems by prominent poets such as Donald Hall, Robert Hass, Maxine Kumin, Galway Kinnell and Sharon Olds, as well as by a number of emerging poets, show the joys, the griefs, the milestones and the mysteries that arise between parents and their children as they travel through life inescapably bound by an essential love.
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Essential Love . . . is an extravagant accumulation of work by poets who have touched the wonder of the modern family in its smallest beauties and its blackest sorrows. -- El Paso Times
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Terrific collection, depth and staying power!,
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This review is from: Essential Love: Poems About Mothers and Fathers, Daughters and Sons (Hardcover)
Esential Love is an anthology that looks at parents and their children from many angles. The book covers many facets of the parent and child relationship, from parenting a newborn to navigating adolescence to watching a grown child marry. It also features writers looking back at their own childhoods and writing about the evolution of relationships as people relate to their elderly parents. This is a strong collection of poetry by some of our best contemporary poets, as well as by some poets that are relatively unknown. Although only a few of the poems are sentimental in the popular sense of the word, the poems are honest and loving. The book has great depth and staying power; I have turned to it many times and suggested poems from it to others.
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