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A Mother's Heart, A Daughter's Love
Poems for Us to Share
By Thomas, Joyce Carol
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06029-649-0
- Publisher
- New York : Joanna Cotler Books, c2001.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2001
Gr 9-Up A nostalgic collection of 25 poems written in the voices of a daughter and her mother, exposing the changing timbre of their relationship throughout the girl's life and the breadth of their feelings for and about one another. In the first verses, the newborn waits, blanket-swathed in the nursery, for the one who will claim her; in the final poems the grown daughter grieves for her deceased mother. Many of the selections in between highlight the feelings of the pair on the occasions of m...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
