{"product_id":"instead-of-a-card-ten-poems-about-mothers","title":"Instead of a Card: Ten Poems about Mothers","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A greeting that not only gives great pleasure but illuminates our lives—like a message in a bottle.”\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e—Robert McCrum, writer and editor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“Ten Poems about Mothers” is a title in the “Instead of a Card” series, based on the idea that sending a greeting card is a lovely gesture, and sending a booklet of poetry an even more meaningful one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis much-loved mini anthology features poems celebrating all kinds of mothers. There’s the mother who can’t help cooking for “several hundred million imagined diners” and the mother who tries to keep her children’s diet free of harmful additives. There’s also the mother with a special voice for reading bedtime stories and even a yodeling Mother Earth who tells tales and gossips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn one poem, a mirror in the family home seems to contain the past, present and future:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"blockquote-indent-110-all\"\u003e“… the mother\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewho looks like me, who\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003esmiles at herself in her\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003emother’s mirror, the friendly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003emirror in her mother’s house.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"is-italic\"\u003e—Maura Dooley, “Mirror”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"is-italic\"\u003eWhat all the poems share is a sense of lasting love that flows through the years between mother and son or daughter, surviving the twists, turns and surprises of our lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"is-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected by Di Slaney\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"is-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems by Laurie Bolger, Maura Dooley, Jonathan Edwards, Joanna Ingham, Jackie Kay, DH Lawrence, Carmina Masoliver, Roy McFarlane, Caleb Parkin, and John Siddique.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"is-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCover Illustration by Sara \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eBoccaccini Meadows\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions 5.5\" x 8.25\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Reader's Catalog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42376439726126,"sku":"05-27720","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0891\/0192\/files\/ten-poems-about-mothers-poetry-pamphlet-front-cover.jpg?v=1779911830","url":"https:\/\/shop.nybooks.com\/products\/instead-of-a-card-ten-poems-about-mothers","provider":"The Reader's Catalog","version":"1.0","type":"link"}