An anthology of touching original letters, written especially for this collection, from 75 contemporary women writers to their mothers, both living and deceased, accompanied by black and white photos of the authors and their mothers.
'From Daughters To Mothers: I've Always Meant To Tell You' offers readers a compellingly different anthology. Instead of compiling existing pieces, Constance Warloe has asked over 70 contemporary women writers to take a fresh look at that often considered subject: their mothers. The result is an original collection of incredibly varied pieces by women authors of all ages and cultures, writing in a variety of genres.
"I've always meant to tell you . . ." is a phrase so many of us have used with loved ones and this clearly provides both the title and the intent of the book. The letters Maxine Kumin, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Joy Harjo, Nicole Hollander and many others share are often a divulging of secrets and they are profound or humorous, tragic or light-hearted. In every writer's distinctive voice, each of the letters, poems, fables, tales, memories and confessions in this collection have a story to tell or a theme to explore - healing and recovery, gratitude and celebration, nostalgia and hope, death and rebirth, to name a few - and somewhere here every reader will find something new and fresh or comfortable and familiar that is sure to shed a new light upon her own very special relationship with her mother or daughter.
