Mom
Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life
Nisa Donnelly
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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| ISBN | 1555834086 |
| Genre | Anthology – Nonfiction; Autobiography/Biography |
| Publication Date | May-98 |
| Publisher | Hushion House |
| Editor | Nisa Donnelly |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 302 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Editor | Nisa Donnelly |
| BookID | 8391 |
