Download or read book Mothersongs written by Sandra M Gilbert and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-05-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MotherSongs, a unique collection of verse about maternity and the celebration of motherhood, opens with poems about pregnancy, labor, delivery, and nursing and moves to poems about women raising children, delighting in their growth or mourning their loss. Includes works by such artists as Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Walt Whitman and others.