Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother: A Daybook and Reader [Paperback]

Tillie Olsen (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1993

  Tillie Olsen's personal selection from the work of 120 writers of prose and poetry, memoir and song, provides a contemporary view of this special relationship from such writers as Louise Bogan, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Grace Paley, Olive Schreiner, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, and Virginia Woolf. This book includes a monthly calendar, applicable to any year, for notes and reminders.

Editorial Reviews

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They Were Just Meant As Covers by Teresa Palomo Acosta
Rock Me To Sleep by Elizabeth Akers Allen
Out Of Her Own Body She Pushed by Paula Gunn Allen
I Would Be A Fool To Want More Children by Alta [pseud.]
But What I'm Trying To Say Mother Is by Florence Anthony
Our Stunning Harvest, Sels. by Ellen Bass
They Are Times In Life When One Does The Right Thing by Ellen Bass
Dedication by Anne Bradstreet
Abortions Will Not Let You Forget by Gwendolyn Brooks
Twenty-one Years Of My Life You Have Been by Lucille Clifton
My Young Mother by Jane Cooper
Ceasura by Patricia Cumming
Spring by Patricia Cumming
I Look At My Hands, Momma by Laura Davis
You Taught Me Fear, Momma by Laura Davis
Fashioning What She Is by Emily Dickinson
The Work Of Her That Went by Emily Dickinson
Before I Slept, I Saw The Nebula by Katherine Doak
Mother, Sels. by Sharon Lura Edens Doubiago
From Which Things Are Born by Carolyn Forche
Mother Of God by Carolyn Forche
Circles by Celia Gilbert
The Awful Mother by Susan Griffin
Rebecca by Susan Griffin
When Mama Came Here As A Gold Panner by Jana Harris
My Mother's Death by Judith Hemschemeyer
You Are Like An Everlasting Friendship by Laurel O. Hoye
Poem For South African Women by June Jordan
I Hear You by Shirley Kaufman
No Use Waiting For It To Stop by Shirley Kaufman
She Used To Slice Them In Quarters by Shirley Kaufman
Daughter-my Mother by Carolyn Kizer
The Journey: For Janet At Thirteen by Maxine W. Kumin
Unveiling by Hilary Sametz Lloyd
Black Mother Woman by Audre Lorde
Story Books On A Kitchen Table (1976) by Audre Lorde
Teacher by Audre Lorde
Chinatown 4 by Laureen Mar
My Mother, Who Came From China, Where She Never Saw Snow by Laureen Mar
And %mother Why Did You Tell Me by Stephanie Markman
I Want To Be Your Daughter Now, Sels. by Katie Mcbain
That I Will Not Be A Restless Ghost, Sels. by Margaret Mead
Small Wings, Sels. by Maude Meehan
For My Daughter by Janice Mirikitani
La Dulce Culpa, Sels. by Cherrie Moraga
Poem Of Two, Sels. by Michele Murry
Jennie Lubell Is In A Nursing Home In Provincetown, Sels. by Adeline Naiman
Hj by Lorine Niedecker
35/10 by Sharon Olds
More Than The Gems by Otomo Of Sakanoe
I Am My Mother's Daughter by Marge Piercy
In Sleep The Other Night I Met You, Seventeen by Marge Piercy
My Dear, What You Said Was One Thing by Marge Piercy
Child by Sylvia Plath
Nursing Mother, Sels. by Marie Ponsot
Grandmothers: 1. Mary Gravely Jones by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Desert by Del Marie Rogers
Night Feeding by Muriel Rukeyser
O My Mother (1) by Nelly Leonie Sachs
O My Mother (2) by Nelly Leonie Sachs
We Mothers by Nelly Leonie Sachs
I Did Not Weep For My Father by Eleanor May Sarton
To My Mother by Hannah Senesh
Notes From A Youngest Daughter, Sels. by Elizabeth Neary Sholl
The Place To Begin by Judith Mickel Sornberger
Thinking Of My Mother Who Fifteen Years Later, Has Gone East ... by Judith Mickel Sornberger
A Room To Go To -- by Sue Standing
Advice by Ruth Stone
Bittersweet, Sels. by Joyce Carol Thomas
Almyra Wilmarth; 3 Yrs. 7 Mos. 4 Days by Anonymous
Milena Wilett; I Yr. Old by Anonymous
Forgiveness by Alice Walker
I Stroked Her Cheek With My Finger by Jeanne Murray Walker
I Sing This Song For Our Mothers: Ruise by Sherley Anne Williams
The Peack Cocks Poems, Sels. by Sherley Anne Williams
Harbinger, Sels. by Nellie Wong
Red Journeys, Sels. by Nellie Wong
Woman To Child by Judith Wright
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Activist and author Tillie Olsen is best known for her prize-winning fiction Tell Me a Riddle and Yonnondio: From the Thirties. She has taught at MIT, Stanford, and Amherst. Olsen is an recipient of an Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Literature from the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY (January 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0935312374
• ISBN-13: 978-0935312379
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,532,765 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)