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Morning Song Sylvia Plath 1966
Lucky Tony Hoagland 1998
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer Mark Strand 1979
Foreign Wife Elegy Yuko Taniguchi 2004
Parents William Meredith 1980
Mama, Come Back Nellie Wong 1986
Battle of Will & Exhaustion, Mother & Child Jenny Factor 2002
For a Daughter Who Leaves Janice Mirikitani 2002
Mermaid Song Kim Addonizio 2000
That the Soul May Wax Plump May Swenson 1978
Kaddish, Part I Allen Ginsberg 1984

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