Product Description: In Nessa O'Mahony's third poetry collection, she examines the nature of those bonds through poems that combine the autobiographical with the historical. Nessa presents a parallel sequences of poems, one relating to her relationship with her own father, whose decline and death she charts with painful honesty, the second exploring the life of her grandfather, a more mysterious figure whose story slowly emerges through her mother's memories, and her own research...read more

Product Description: The Lucia Poems is the second of four books by American Book Award recipient Jimmy Santiago Baca that is part of a series titled Breaking Bread With The Darkness. The Lucia Poems are about Lucia's father remembering the roads that bright him to the present time in whih daughter, lucia, emanates a special lift, gives oof the illumination that startled his soul into a recognition of gratitude for her-- he opens the baggage of events over the last thirty years, events that almost killed him, swallowed him in their darkness, but which he somehow survived, and now he approaches or speaks into the present and future, speak to his daughter with a redemptive and courageous conviction that perhaps he made it, because his dream was to have ehrm he endured because she was coming to him in the future, his dream little girl, who know walks at his side to school every day and who he bows laughing nd serenely imbued by her star-dust presence, he the father is happy and fulfilled, nothing that all the experiences in the poems were worth enduring because of her arrival...read more

Product Description: The Father is often regarded as Sharon Olds’ most important and powerful single book. In its poems, Olds narrows her focus to a sequence of startling and provocative poems about a daughter’s final days with her dying father. It is an elegant, passionate examination of love and loss, a bittersweet, transcendent elegy...read more

Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W. H. Auden told friends, it is "really about the Christian conception of art" and it is "my Ars Poetica, in the same way I believe The Tempest to be Shakespeare's." This is the first critical edition. Arthur Kirsch's introduction and notes make the poem newly accessible to readers of Auden, readers of Shakespeare, and all those interested in the relation of life and literature--those two classic themes alluded to in its title. The poem begins in a theater after a performance of The Tempest has ended. It includes a moving speech in verse by Prospero bidding farewell to Ariel, a section in which the supporting characters speak in a dazzling variety of verse forms about their experiences on the island, and an extravagantly inventive section in prose that sees the uncivilized Caliban address the audience on art--an unalloyed example of what Auden's friend Oliver Sachs has called his "wild, extraordinary and demonic imagination." Besides annotating Auden's allusions and sources (in notes after the text), Kirsch provides extensive quotations from his manuscript drafts, permitting the reader to follow the poem's genesis in Auden's imagination. This book, which incorporates for the first time previously ignored corrections that Auden made on the galleys of the first edition, also provides an unusual opportunity to see the effect of one literary genius upon another.

Product Description: Poetry. Kimmelman has previously published three collections of poetry, including a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso. He teaches English at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and is the author of two book-length literary-critical studies...read more

Product Description: The first man in a little girl’s life is her dad. He is the one she looks up to, the one who makes her feel safe and secure. He urges her to reach for her dreams and is always there to catch her when she falls. He is the man who deserves the greatest of thanks for all he has done through the years and for all he continues to do...read more

Product Description: This beautiful book acts as a love letter from parent to daughter, with four chapters depicting the many aspects of the relationship. Delicate watercolors accompany each poem and add to the richness of the text. Parents will enjoy reminiscing as they read the poems, and their daughters will delight in receiving a gift from the ones who nurtured them and helped to shape their lives...read more

Product Description: Second collection from the poet of powerful emotions and vivid imagery, The Zoo Father underlines the author's reputation as a questing poet capable of outstanding imagistic flourishes and surprising associations. This extraordinary and powerful volume is comprised of two sections, the first about with the poet's relationship with her father, the second with her mother...read more

Product Description: The moment she enters your life, a daughter transforms your world forever. In return, you find yourself wanting to provide her with a world full of dreams, love, and happiness. This collection gives voice to every parent's deepest feelings, in beautiful words that every daughter will enjoy reading time and again throughout the years...read more

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Presents a collection of poetry in the form of letters addressed to the author's deceased father.

Product Description: The Dead Are So Disappointing is a daughter's unflinching meditation on the days immediately preceding and following her father's death—and an interrogation into the lasting impact his life has had on her own. This collection stands revealed as an integral part of a long-delayed mourning process as the daughter struggles to reconcile the competing emotions of anger and grief, betrayal and loyalty, that surfaced after her father's death...read more

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Product Description: Richard Harrison's fourth book, Big Breath of a Wish, delves deeply into the linguistic discoveries children make in their first two years of life. It uniquely opens up these discoveries to readers, who identify both with the child and the parents and, through Harrison's clear, suggestive language, rediscover themselves...read more

Product Description: In Landscape of the Heart, Stephen J. Lyons writes of a five-year period following a divorce when he and his young daughter Rose serch for new meanings in their lives and their relationship. This quiet work of healing is both painful and joyful as Stephen and Rose discover the West together...read more

Product Description: Poignant poems dedicated to the memory of Heather Rosario-Sievert's father.

Product Description: Poems about a father, a single parent, and his experiences of raising a daughter.

Gathers poems about the father-daughter relationship by T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Ntozake Shange, and Mark Strand

Product Description: Book by Mandel, Charlotte