Untying The Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of The 1950s

by Glenn Lorri Neilsen (Editor)

Overview

Mothers of the 1950s were wasp-waisted, dutiful, serene, and tied to the kitchen with apron strings. Or so we thought. This collection of searing and startling poetry and prose unties the stereotype and reveals women who were strong, wild, talented, wise, mad, creative, desperate, angry, courageous, bitter, tenacious, reckless and beautiful, sometimes all at once. The contributors include multi-award-winning poets, novelists, and essayists, as well as compelling new literary voices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781550717303
Publisher:	Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/30/2013
Series:	Essential Anthologies Series , #4
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Lorri Neilsen Glenn is the author of acclaimed books of poetry and nonfiction including Lost Gospels and Combustion, and Threading Light. Halifax Poet Laureate from 2005-2009, she has edited several collections of prose, poetry, and scholarly work.

Table of Contents

Preface v

Keeping Up 1

Keeping Up Daphne Marlatt 3

Last Summer in the Old Craig House E. Alex Pierce 8

Slingbacks Myrna Garanis 9

Combustion Lorri Neilsen Glenn 10

Silver Bangles Margaret Zielinski 12

My Mother Does Not Appear Sheila Norgate 13

Table 17

Table Diane Schoemperlen 19

Kitchen Crew Cindy Dean-Morrison 23

Sweet Red Peppers Liz Zetlin 25

Haifa Pound of Tea Maureen Hynes 27

Advice from My Mother Concerning Root Vegetables Marilynn Rudi 29

Discontinued China Pattern Myrna Garanis 31

A Taste of Lemon Rosemary Clewes 32

Royal Jelly Marilyn Gear Pilling 33

What I Didn't Know Then Liz Zetlin 35

Happy and Lucky Judy Fong Bates 38

Play School 43

Play School Betsy Struthers 45

Assembly Line Alice Major 49

Familiar Blue Coat Joanne Page 51

The Sour Red Cherries Marilyn Gear Pilling 53

At the Corner of Sunset and Virginia Jane Munro 55

Who's Sorry Now? Jeanette Lynes 62

The Gift Ruth Roach Pierson 63

My Life is Not My Own Carla Hartsfield 68

Moving Elizabeth Greene 74

The Tory Candidate Comes to Call Alice Major 75

My Mother Taught Me Zöe Landale 76

Overcoats: hers and hers Susan Helwig 82

Make It Glow Penn Kemp 83

Not Dick and Jane 85

My Mother, My 1950s Sharon Thesen 87

Let Us Answer to Our Names Marilynn Rudi 91

The House with Many Doors Marjorie Simmins 93

Perfume Kate Braid 99

Geranium Lorri Neilsen Glenn 100

Dusk, If That Leanne Averbach 102

Survival Part Two: On Being a Mother in a New Land Marsha Lederman 103

The Dirty Blonde in the Yellow Pajamas Deb Loughead 109

Birth Mother: Phone Call Susan Helwig 115

In My Blood Shauna Butterwick 116

Godmother Sylvia Hamilton 118

The Forward Look 123

The Girls in the Snapshot Janet Barkhouse 125

The Forward Look Janice Acton 126

Something Different Frances Boyle 134

The Alien Com Pam Thomas 136

In Her Hands Pat Clifford 142

Hoop Jeanette Lynes 148

Mary (Foley) Doyle Marjorie Doyle 149

Reading Shakespeare E. Alex Pierce 152

The Same Roof Denise Chong 153

The Mad and Beautiful Mothers 157

The Mad and Beautiful Mothers Patricia Young 159

Rescuing Mickey Sarah Murphy 161

Eulogy for Eunice Mary Jane Copps 166

Good mother deborah schnitzer 171

Split Carol Bruneau 176

Manhattan Clarissa Green 182

Jewish Oil Brat Davi Walders 183

Blue Medicine Maureen Hynes 185

Getting Ready 187

Making Up Mother Isabel Huggan 189

Solo Marilyn Gear Pilling 193

Getting ready Lynda Monahan 195

Extended Care Rhona McAdam 196

The Night She Died Lekkie Hopkins 198

Apartment 1422 Allison Marion 200

Third Yahrzeit Davi Walders 204

My mother's name was nancy Lynda Monahan 206

Borders Eve Joseph 208

Weeding, Late Summer Sue Chenette 213

Wearing My Mother's Dresses Cynthia Woodman Kerkham 214

Your Hands Cynthia French 216

Devil's Apron Lorri Neilsen Glenn 219

Water to Water Margaret Zielinski 225

Acknowledgements 227

Contributors 231