Essential Love 
Subtitle: Poems About Mothers and Fathers, Daughters and Sons
Publisher: Grayson Books
Published: May 14, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780967555423
Subjects: Poetry; Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry / Single Author / American; American - General; 20th Century American Poetry; American Contemporary Poetry; Family; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Single Author - American (General); Inspirational & Religious; 20th century; American poetry; Parent and child
First sentence: I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges, I see my father strolling out under the ochre sandstone arch, the red tiles glistening like bent plates of blood behind his head.