Morning Song: Poems for New Parents
Praise forMorning Song"While there’s no denying this treasury’s value as a gift book, it’s of equal or greater value to every good library of poetry."--Booklist, starred review“I know of no other anthology like it. I can imagine any number of friends and relatives giving it to new parents. It’s not a bunch of poems about babies, but great poems about the trajectories of new lives. When I began reading, I remembered being on the 2 a.m. feeding, rocking the baby with his bottle. How wonderful it would have been to have that book at that hour.”---Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize--winning author“I am delighted to be included in a book that is such a good idea and such an excellent collection.”---Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize--winning author ofAmerican Primitive“Morning Songis a wonderful gathering of poems that, though intended for new parents, is not fixated on crib and stroller but speaks, rather, to “the inner life of mothers and fathers.” The poems chosen are a fresh, abundant harvest of the new and the old, the plain and the lofty, the great and the little known, but all that variety is pervaded by the editors’ devotion to love and life.”---Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize--winning author ofThings of This WorldandNew and Collected Poems“This marvelous, much-needed anthology will cast a lasting glow over new parents and children alike, not to mention the relatives and friends who care for them.”---Stephen Young, program director of The Poetry Foundation“Who better than our most beloved poets to translate all that is unspeakable about our most beloved children---this joy and terror, this terrible love that has bewitched us---into words, into grace. I read the collection in one sitting and then lurched out of bed to watch my own sleeping babies and sigh into the moonlight.”---Catherine Newman, author ofWaiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family“The birth of a child is an event so extraordinary that parents often lack the words to describe their thoughts and feelings. Collecting some of the finest poems ever written on birth and childhood,Morning Songnot only articulates but also expands and refines our sense of the miracle of new life.”---Dana Gioia"This collection is poignant, inspiring, thoughtful and fun." --Deseret News