Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About The First Woman in Their Life - Softcover

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9781555834081: Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About The First Woman in Their Life

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ISBN 10: 1555834086 ISBN 13: 9781555834081

Publisher: Alyson Books, 1808

Nearly 30 women, including some of the best-known lesbian writers in the country, contributed to this remarkable ode to mothers with memoirs that are astonishing in their diversity and truth. These reminiscences prove that raising a child is a lifelong process that continues in spite of distance, estrangement, and even death.

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In her introduction to this anthology, Nisa Donnelly describes the particular bond between mothers and their lesbian daughters: "We are the women our mothers warned us about and, at the same time, the women they made us." This collection examines the complexities of a lesbian's first woman-to-woman relationship. Linda Smukler's poem "St. Francis" suggests that the mother is the primary object of all kinds of contradictory love: love as a tease, as an unexpected caress, as beauty, as a scream. Lucy Jane Bledsoe's essay "Searching for the Mythic Mother Mentor" describes the author's desire to find a lesbian forebear in her own family. "Poa Poa is Livng Breathing Light" is Kitty Tsui's record of finding such a strong female character in her grandmother. Among the other contributors to this book are Judy Grahn, Hillary Mullins, Donna Allegra and newcomers Terrie Akemi-Hamazaki and G. L. Morrison. --Rebecca Brown

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