Not For Mothers Only

by Catherine Wagner (Editor), Rebecca Wolff (Editor), Alicia Suskin Ostriker (Foreword by)

Overview

"The poets in this anthology have been ravished, whacked, illuminated, blown away by the experience of motherhood. The thousand experiences. The thousand interruptions. The fact that it is never what we expected, and that it is overwhelmingly intense."—Alicia Ostriker, from the foreword

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780977106486
Publisher:	Fence Magazine, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/01/2007
Pages:	546
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

CATHERINE WAGNER is the author of two books of poems, Miss America and Macular Hole. She is the winner of the Ruth Lilly Prize and was a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she currently lives in Oxford, Ohio, where she has recently joined the faculty at Miami University.

REBECCA WOLFF is founding editor and publisher of Fence and Fence Books. She is also the author of two books of poems, Manderley and Figment, which won the National Poetry Series and the Barnard Women Poets Prize, respectively. She was born and raised in New York City and attended Bennington College, U-Mass Amherst, and the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, as well as doing a brief stint at the University of Houston. She lives in Athens, New York, and teaches at the New School.

Table of Contents

Mina Loy's "Parturition"
Foreword - Alicia Ostriker Introductions - Catherine Wagner and Rebecca Wolff Night-pieces for A Child - Adrienne Rich from the Church - Jean Valentine The Locked Ward: O.T. - Jean Valentine Single Mother, 1966 - Jean Valentine Abortion Child - Jean Valentine Her dream: the child - Jean Valentine Dearest - Jean Valentine At the Door - Jean Valentine You Are Not One in a Sequence - Jean Valentine Maria Gravida, Mary Expectant - Jean Valentine from Natural Birth - Toi Derricotte The Fat Baby - Caroline Knox Therse Lavasseur - Caroline Knox from The Mother/Child Papers - Alicia Ostriker from Zombie Notes - Maureen Owen Bedtime - Maureen Owen from Letters to the Letters S and F - Maureen Owen from Hearts in Space - Maureen Owen from The No-Travels Journal - Maureen Owen Topography - Maureen Owen Giving Birth - Wanda Coleman
'Tis Morning Makes Mother A Killer - Wanda Coleman child of air and light not speaking - Kathleen Fraser Q - Fanny Howe The Nursery - Fanny Howe Conclusively - Fanny Howe A downpour - Martha Ronk Now it's up to the world
"'You know how I am,' he said, 'when it is getting late'" - Martha Ronk from Spinoza in Her Youth - Norma Cole Dear Dark Continent - Alice Notley Three Strolls - Alice Notley
3 Postpartum Exercises - Alice Notley Splashes of Yellow - Alice Notley Walk, Walk, Walk - Alice Notley But He Says I Misunderstood - Alice Notley from Songs for the Unborn Second Baby - Alice Notley January - Alice Notley from Waltzing Matilda "12/2/80" - Alice Notley The World's 21 Greatest Animals: A Play - Alice Notley The Howling Saint T-Shirt - Alice Notley Midwinter Day, Section 2 - Bernadette Mayer Two Days After Joanna Had Two Stitches - Bernadette Mayer Marie Makes Fun of Me at the Shore - Bernadette Mayer Chocolate Sonnet - Bernadette Mayer A Birth - Maxin Chernoff Sotto Voce - Maxine Chernoff Identity Principle - Maxine Chernoff from Have You A Daughter? - Maxine Chernoff from The Angel of History - Carolyn Forche Curfew - Carolyn Forche Fiction - Rae Armantrout Attention - Rae Armantrout Crossing - Rae Armantrout A Story - Rae Armantrout Bases - Rae Armantrout Merely by Wilderness - Molly Peacock ChrisEaster - Molly Peacock On the Street - Molly Peacock The Ghost - Molly Peacock N/est - Ann Lauterbach Time Problem - Brenda Hillman Assent - Anne Waldman Poem - Anne Waldman Hermeneutical - Anne Waldman Baby's Pantoum - Anne Waldman The Moment the Two Worlds Meet - Sharon Olds New Mother - Sharon Olds The Clasp - Sharon Olds The Talk - Sharon Olds The One Girl at the Boys' Party - Sharon Olds The Language of the Brag - Sharon Olds First Weeks - Sharon Olds Rose - Rachel Blau Duplessis from Writing - Rachel Blau Duplessis Draft #2: She - Rachel Blau Duplessis Utica Station - Kimiko Hahn The Shower - Kimiko Hahn The Variable Field - Kimiko Hahn Everybody Was His Mother - Carla Harryman in temples - Akilah Oliver murdering - Akilah Oliver in Aporia - Akilah Oliver Provolone Baby - Thylias Moss A Catcher for an Atomic Bouquet - Thylias Moss Those Men at Redbones - Thylias Moss Gossamer and Thinner - Thylias Moss One for all Newborns - Thylias Moss What No One Could Have Told Them - C.D. Wright Detail from What No One Could Have Told Them - C.D. Wright Why Leave You So Soon Gone - C.D. Wright Personal Insurance - Mairead Byrne Downtown Crossing - Mairead Byrne The Handy EveryMother Zone-Out Capacitor - Mairead Byrne Circus - Mairead Byrne A Bonnet Gospel - Jean Donnelly The Four Year Old Girl - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge I Love Morning - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Over Dark Arches - Annie Finch Churching - Annie Finch from Dr. B's Poof and Dare - Gillian Conoley
(Erasures of Dr. Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care) - Gillian Conoley from I'm Not Effective In Fact I Use Uncalculated Rhythm Method - Karena Youtz Attache Case - Margaret Christakos Son - Margaret Christakos A Charm for Sleep - Pam Rehm Indebted - Pam Rehm Toccata with Child - Claudia Keelan To the New World - Claudia Keelan After Giving Birth, I Recall the Madonna and Child - Julianna Baggott Vigil - Elizabeth Robinson Coast - Elizabeth Robinson Hammock - Elizabeth Robinson Celestial Militia - Larissa Szporluk Mare Nubium - Larissa Szporluk Mare Fecunditatis - Larissa Szporluk Doppelganger - Larissa Szporluk Vivarium - Miranda Field What Birds Feel, Fish Feel, I Don't Know - Miranda Field The Milk the Hidden Ground the Armor Struggle on the Grass - Miranda Field Animal/Vegetable Fable - Miranda Field Boy Pouring Water - Miranda Field Citronella - Miranda Field Red Radio Flyer - Kimberly Lyons Astroland - Kimberly Lyons Miscarriage in Five Acts - Deborah Landau Mothering During Wartime - Caroline Maso Family Mommy - Sharon Harris A Conception - Kathleen Ossip Nursling - Kathleen Ossip Babyland - Kathlen Ossip from Wrought - Julie Carr Iliadic Familias (with Insertions from Homer) - Julie Carr Mother Poem - Julie Carr Here Happy Is No Part of Love - Rachel Zucker from First Sea - Laynie Browne Female Codon - Zhang Er Lecture on the Mother Image - Zhang Er from Abidjan Notebooks - Leslie Bumstead Lyana Sick and Next to Her - Olena Kaltiak-Davis
"House" is Being Cleaned - Olena Kalytiak-Davis Look at Lesbia Now! - Olena Kaltiak-Davis In Praise of My Children - Olena Kaltiak-Davis from No Guns, No Durian - Susan M. Schultz Amniocentesis - Nicole Cooley Pregnant at the Archive - Nicole Cooley Cesarean - Nicole Cooley What Little Girls Are Made Of - Martha Silano Elegy for the Footie Pajamas - Beth Ann Fennelly Bite Me - Beth Ann Fennelly The Gods Tell Me, You Will Forget All This - Beth Ann Fennelly Wore a Hemp Hate Ate Grapes - Hoa Nguyen
"By Goods We Destroy Good" - Hoa Nguyen The Earth Is in Me - Hoa Nguyen Up Nursing - Hoa Nguyen Eurasiacan - Hoa Nguyen Nonviolence - Marie Howe Courage - Marie Howe The false transfressive evangelista - Elizabeth Treadwell creche - Elizabeth Treadewell Scrawl - Lee Ann Brown
8th Month Couplets - Lee Ann Brown Up in Arms - Lee Ann Brown Music Plays All by Itself - Lee Ann Brown Tatami Mommy - Lee Ann Brown Miranda Lee Arrives in Alamos - Lee Ann Brown New Home to Pollen Path - Lee Ann Brown Anything - Lee Ann Brown Name of the Game - Lee Ann Brown Aesthetic Symbiotic - Caroline Crumpacker Small Fictive Devices: Family - Caroline Crumpacker Viewer Discretion and Young Child - Caroline Crumpacker A Man Can Still Dream of Cigarettes - Jenny Browne The Season When Some People Will Say - Jenny Browne from utter - Susana Gardner Steady, Steady - Jennifer Michael Hecht from Plot - Claudia Rankine Evening Without Swallows - Lisa Fishman Song for Mr. Singer - Lisa Fishman Coming Apart Between the Hours - Arielle Greenberg Reenactment - Arielle Greenberg G is for Glassblower. Gestated. Gravid. Ugly - Arielle Greenberg St. Liberata and the Alien Hordes - Lara Glenum Message to the Department of the Interior - Lara Glenum The Eggs of my Amnesia - Lara Glenum The Golden Wires Signing in the Veins - Lara Glenum Fertility - Lara Glenum Magnificat - Lara Glenum Nursery - Susan Holbrook Hatch - Christine Hume Lullaby - Christine Hume from the Body Clock - Eleni Sikelianos Wherein a Surrogate is Determined Prime - Danielle Pafunda Wherein a Surrogate Fails to Admit - Danielle Pafunda Wherein a Surrogate's Amelioration - Danielle Pafunda Wherein a Surrogate Assumes the Role - Danielle Pafunda Wherein a Surrogate's Fruition 2 - Danielle Pafunda Nature Study - Camille Guthrie Let Me Not Wander - Camille Guthrie Meaning What - Camille Guthrie BBC - Camille Guthrie In the Night Hospital - Camille Guthrie from Knot - Stacy Doris Late Onset Particle Capitalism - Amy Sara Carroll Let Down - Amy Sara Carroll Thrombotic - Amy Sara Carroll Ovulation - Amy Sara Carroll crystal virtues - Betsy Fagin satisfied and tickled - Betsy Fagin I Hear America Swimming - Sasha Steensen The Stranger at the Gates - Sasha Steensen Bibliography Acknowledgments