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Title I've always meant to tell you : letters to our mothers : an anthology of contemporary women writers / edited by Constance Warloe
Published New York : Pocket Books, 1997

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 W'PONDS  306.8743 War/Iam  AVAILABLE
Description xxi, 504 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Lulu "The bold past sashed with light" / Lucile Adler -- Blue Dress / Andrea Barrett -- Ugliful / Lynda Barry -- As If I Am You / Meg Belichick -- Untitled / Anne Bernays -- My Dear Republican Mother / Carol Bly -- Standing in Two Places / Sally Ryder Brady -- The Horoscope Promises Me a Mother's Gift / Jill Breckenridge -- Untitled / Rita Mae Brown -- A Natural Gift / Rosellen Brown -- Thicker Than Blood / Elizabeth Brundage -- Ordinary Gifts / Lillian Castillo-Speed -- Querida Mami / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Dear Mama: Words Having Failed / Wanda Coleman -- Letters to Mama from Cottonwood / Lynn Doiron -- Little Song for My Mother / Rita Dove -- I'm the Mother / Tess Enroth -- If Only / Connie May Fowler -- The Ways Things Go / Joan Frank -- Call Home / Lynn Freed -- A Secret Gladness / Carol Frost -- Boxes / Deborah Galyan -- Unnaming the Flowers / Sonia Gernes -- Untitled / Ellen Gilchrist -- Untitled / Natalie Goldberg -- Untitled / Susan Griffin -- Rotten Mothers / Jan Haag -- Loving Dogwood / Joan Joffe Hall -- Untitled / Phebe Hanson -- The Immensity of Your Gift / Joy Harjo -- Something Ordinary / Mary Hebert -- And Yet You Will Weep and Know Why / Kathryn Hohlwein -- Sylvia on Sunday / Nicole Hollander -- At My Table / Ann Hood -- Your Old Torch Songs / Pam Houston -- White Moths / Laura Kasischke -- To My Mother on Her Seventy-sixth Birthday / Susan Kelly-DeWitt -- Untitled / Barbara Kingsolver -- Alone in Heaven / Clysta Kinstler -- Untitled / Carolyn Kizer -- A Crown of Sonnets, in memory of my mother / Maxine Kumin -- Out of Silence / Anne D. LeClaire -- To Elynore / Suzanne Lipsett -- Writing Eva / Margot Livesey -- The Bird and the Rose / Mary Mackey -- Looking Back in Wonder / Njoki McElroy -- To My Mother / Sandra McPherson -- Untitled / Joanne Meschery -- Lively in Her Soul / Mary Moore -- Every Mother Knows a Coyote / Nora Naranjo-Morse -- Everything You Said, Stayed / Naomi Shihab Nye -- A Letter to My Mother Carolina Oates on Her 78th Birthday / Joyce Carol Oates -- Time Left / Carole Simmons Oles -- Notes to My Mother / Linda Pastan -- Voices After Dark / Marge Piercy -- Reunion / Susan Power -- A Love Story / Dawn Raffel -- Missed / Jane Reavill Ransom -- Between the Lines / Linda Raymond -- To My Mother / Annie Reiner -- Untitled / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Untitled / Carolyn See -- Untitled / Ntozake Shange -- Mother, I Am Listening / Dani Shapiro -- How Your Life Fascinated Me / Carol Shields -- Vigil Without Words / Enid Shomer -- Supper Alone / Louise Farmer Smith -- My Vocation / Donna Baier Stein -- Not Skin Deep - Heart Deep / Susan Straight -- Letter from Hilo / Joan Swift -- The Impossibly Good Mother / Shari Thurer -- Madre de Mi Alma / Alma Luz Villanueva -- My Hang-up / Joyce Wadler -- Where'd You Come From? / Constance Warloe -- Everything I Know / Lynna Williams -- The Oldest Orphan in America / Hilma Wolitzer -- This Should've Been Your Trip / Irene Zabytko -- I Grudge You the Mothertalk / Mary Zeppa -- For the Time Being / Feenie Ziner
Summary In this extraordinary collection of original letters written especially for this volume, more than seventy-five distinguished daughters, including Joyce Carol Oates, Barbara Kingsolver, Ntozake Shange, and Hilma Wolitzer, speak to their mothers, both living and deceased, with messages that come straight from the heart.... Here are novelists, poets, essayists, humorists, cartoonists, journalists, many of them mothers and grandmothers themselves, authors of different ages and cultures, each writing in her own distinctive voice, reaching into the most personal part of her life to share her secret sorrows, joys, hurt, anger, and understanding in I've Always Meant to Tell You. "What do I tell her? What do I not tell her? What do I wish I had said?" Their letters hold thoughtful, provocative, funny, and sometimes painful revelations - memories and confessions, poems, fables and tales - at once personal and universal, touching and profound
Subject American letters.
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence.
Women authors, American -- Correspondence.
Author Warloe, Constance.
LC no. 98158141
ISBN 0671563246