From the Book - First edition.
Last thing I say from To an adolescent weeping willow / Marvin Bell
For my son Noah, ten years old / Robert Bly
Home from work / David Bosnik
Entire dilemma / Michael Burkard
My father's note ; China cupboard and coal furnace / David Chin
Letter to Mother / Victoria Clausi
Arturo ; Letter to my mother: past due ; My son tells me not to wear my poets' clothes ; Heritage / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Taking my son to school / Eamon Grennan
My son, my executioner / Donald Hall
Memory / Adrienne E. Ianniello
Ballad for Dave ; Plain poplar ; Secret love / Milton Kessler / For my great grandfather: message long overdue / Maxine Kumin
Jounal for my daughter ; My mother's pears / Stanley Kunitz
My son skating on Doane's lake / Greg Kuzma
For Angela ; Winter of the stories / Margaret K. Menges
My father ; Bronx park east / Jerry Mirskin
On that day ; Pietro / Greg Moglia
Seeing my parents in New York ; Uncles / Kyoko Mori
Our father's image / Megeen Mulholland
Weariness ; In the class for giving birth / Howard Nelson
Wedding cake ; How far is it to the land we left ; Genetics / Naomi Shihab Nye
Notes from the delivery room ; Real story / Linda Pastan
Unemployed mami / Willie perdomo
Playground / Katha Pollitt
White slip ; How quickly, how early / Liz Rosenberg
Leaving you / Kate Schmitt
Monte ; Turtle story / Henry M. Seiden
Because he wasn't ; Because one is always leaving / Jason Schinder
Worry at the end of the month / Gary Soto
Waving goodbye / Gerald Stern
Instructions on climbing your father's garage / Philip Terman
Peach blossom snow from Learning to Dance ; Camping out in the back yard / Antonio Vallone
Saturday in Chinatown / Li-Shen Yun.