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Every poet is a mothers child, and many of our greatest poets have immortalized this elemental relationship. This anthology collects the work of more than 70 poets from across the centuries and around the world, each enshrining the miracle of motherhood in language at once distinctive and yet unfailingly intimate. Here, alongside the work of poets as diverse as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Sylvia Plath, is the work of 10th century Japanese poet Izumi Shikibu, the 17th centurys Anne Bradstreet, Israels Yehuda Amichai, Irelands Eavan Boland and Paul Muldoon and Russias Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova. From Christina Rossettis TO MY FIRST LOVE, MY MOTHER and Emily Brontes UPON HER SOOTHING BREAST to Allen Ginsbergs KADDISH and Frank OHaras AVE MARIA, the range of form and feeling is as varied as the experience itself. A series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the worlds classic poets. Our books have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classics 128pages. The binding, paper and production is visibly superior in every way to that of Bloomsbury. Series now contains 51 titles.
