Tag Archives: Mothers and Daughters

I Carry You in Me Like an Embryo

By Robin Bates | Published: December 9, 2012

Marge Piercy’s mother died during Hanukkah and the poet uses the season to reflect upon their contentious relationship.

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The Dead Return to Comfort Us

By Robin Bates | Published: April 27, 2012

The Pedro Almodovar film “Volver” explores the longing the love will prove more powerful than death.

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The Thread between Mother and Daughter

By Robin Bates | Published: August 11, 2011

The mother in Janice Mirikitani’s poem feels joined to her daughter by the red thread she uses to sew her wedding slippers.

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Poetic Lifelines for Those Left Behind

By Robin Bates | Published: April 12, 2010

Lucille, daughters, and granddaughter            On Saturday night St. Mary’s College held a memorial service for Lucille Clifton, the noted American poet who was also our teacher, colleague and friend for almost twenty years.  For me, the most moving part of the ceremony was hearing Lucille’s remaining three daughters reading their favorite poems.  Or rather, they chose […]

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