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Just in time for Mothers' Day comes this anthology of poems about the experience of motherhood, or "the thousand experiences, the thousand interruptions," as poet Alicia Ostriker writes in the foreword. Edited by two friends who met in the early 1990s at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Not for Mothers Only collects poems on a range of subjects under the motherhood umbrella, some intimate and personal, others historical and political.
Just in time for Mothers' Day comes this anthology of poems about the experience of motherhood, or "the thousand experiences, the thousand interruptions," as poet Alicia Ostriker writes in the foreword. Edited by two friends who met in the early 1990s at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Not for Mothers Only collects poems on a range of subjects under the motherhood umbrella, some intimate and personal, others historical and political.
Among the contributors are well-known poets (Adrienne Rich, Carolyn Forché, Sharon Olds, for example) and emerging ones (most are likely to be new to readers). There's very little in the way of helpful structuring: The contributors are not arranged thematically, but according to the arrival of their first child.
Catherine Wagner, in the introduction, calls this book a "comforting corrective to those who feel isolated as mother-artists," and Rebecca Wolff notes that "poets who are mothers" often get asked, "How has being a mother changed your writing?" Her own response is "brutally literal . . . pragmatic as a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich on allergen-free bread": "My poems are a lot shorter now."
Not for Mothers Only is an odd title for a poetry anthology that seems to be precisely for mothers; it's wishful thinking on the part of the editors that anyone else is going to be much interested in an anthology dealing with the "life-changing joys and rigors of motherhood." Still, lovely language abounds in these pages and provocative phrases, and, as Eddy Arnold used to sing, "Put them all together, they spell Mother, a word that means the world to me."
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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.
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