mother-son relationship

A selection of new and well-known contemporary American poets writing on the theme of mother and son relationships.

From dinnertime to bedtime, Little Brown Bear counts the many ways his mother loves him.

A mother and son practice writing Chinese characters in the snow. Introduces the characters for ten simple words.

Mother Possum is in despair because her son cannot learn to play dead without laughing.

Sara Goldfarb, a widow driven by an obsession to lose weight and appear on a television game show, and her son Harry, a junkie, both see drugs as the means to achieve their dreams, not realizing they are creating a nightmare.

Zachary, a young bear, says that when he grows up he is going to live with his mother, but she encourages him to think about the many other things he could do, such as being a footballer, pilot, or cowboy.

When he asks his mother, a privateer for Queen Elizabeth, to go to school she insists it be the best one in the world, only it is over four hundred years in the future.

Seven-year-old Che, raised in privilege by his New York grandmother, is kidnapped in 1972 by Dial, a young Vassar professor who has agreed to bring the boy to his parents--former student radicals who are wanted by the FBI, and while Dial finds her task much more complicated than she had imagined it would be, Che looks at the time on the run and in a seedy Australian commune, as a grand adventure and chance to bond with Dial who he has come to regard as a mother.

Anxious to fit in at his new school and make friends, fifth grader Brendan tries to avoid his embarrassing mother who loves to make a spectacle of herself.

Mother and son memoir discussing how each dealt with the issue of the son's homosexuality.