Titlebook: Writers and Their Mothers; Dale Salwak Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Ian McEwan.Martin Amis.Margaret Drab

构成

Mater Sagax instilled in me was analogous to some superior ingredients which I, a chef, had been provided with, and which I then somehow processed into poetry. This notion of the raw and the cooked now seems condescending and presumptuous to me. The essential qualities of my mother’s soul—her patience and disc

祖先

My Wicked Stepmotherly and satisfyingly good.” In my last letter to her, written in December 2013 after a long telephone call of condolence, I congratulated Jane on her artistic longevity; and I cited the example of Herman Wouk, who had recently completed a novel in his late 90s.

控制

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Walt Whitman and His Motherd child, Walter. What survives of their relationship is a correspondence of about three hundred letters between mother and son. Some of the letters are long, the printed edition of the manuscripts ending up as three pages.

依法逮捕

‘Persistent Ghost’with a feckless drunken father and a weak mother. My strongest feelings about my mother, perhaps disappointingly, are about an old woman, in her nineties; and these are the feelings caught in these poems, written in the time leading up to her death, aged almost ninety-seven, and soon afterwards.

听觉

acrobat

iodides

My Mother, and Friendsrrounding that remains one of the strongest elements in my life. Once in a while I find something written by someone else, not my mother, that describes that quality perfectly, giving the essence of who she was for me.

affinity

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