The messages inside Mother’s Day cards don’t come even close to expressing
how you feel. Instead, try
Motherhood: Poems About Mothers,
www.barnesandnoble.com(Everyman’s Library, $12.50), filled with more than 100 poems by such writers as Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, e.e. cummings, and Thomas Hardy. And while cards get thrown out (and chocolates eaten and flowers tossed), this little volume
will find a home on Mom’s bookshelf.