Family Reunion: Poems about Parenting Grown Children

By Wayne F. Peate

Poetry. "For anyone who has grown children, or for anyone who is a grown child--or on the way to being one--FAMILY REUNION captures the frustrations, anxieties, perplexities, heartaches and, yes, the pride and joy and tenderness that go, inevitably, both ways. These poems are a poignant record of how we age, eye to eye"--Alicia Ostriker. Includes poems by Maxine Kumin, Hayden Carruth, Marie Ponsot, Raymond Carver, Robert Creeley and Carolyn Kizer, among others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887344071
• ISBN13: 9781887344074
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Chicory Blue Press
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Ground breaking and honest

With this collecton, editor Sondra Zeidenstein remains true to her literary convictions: good poems engage us, they are written from "the gut," they are well crafted, and the very best brave new territory. While there are already many poems written by grown children about their parents, until this anthology there were only a handful of poems written by parents about grown children. Zeidenstein includes known and lesser-known poets in a moving, essential collection that will appeal to a wide audience. I attended one of Zeidenstein's readings from this anthology--the audience laughed, wept, enthusiastically nodded their heads and kept on applauding.