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Pushkin's father, Sergei Lvovich Pushkin (1767–1848), was descended from a distinguished family of the Russian nobility that traced its ancestry back to the 12th century. [11] Pushkin's mother, Nadezhda (Nadya) Ossipovna Gannibal (1775–1836), was descended through her paternal grandmother from German and Scandinavian nobility.
Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) [1] is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.She was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature. [2]
Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.” —Janet Lanese. Grandmother opens up a new world of change, challenge, and celebration in a woman’s life.” —Rebecca Barlow Jordan
Whitman's poem "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855) was used by Ray Bradbury as the title of a short story and a short story collection. Bradbury's story was adapted for the Twilight Zone episode of May 18, 1962, in which a bereaved family buys a made-to-order robot grandmother to forever love and serve the family. [204] "
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His poem "Heart's Needle" proved inspirational for her in its theme of separation from his three-year-old daughter. [8] Sexton first read the poem at a time when her own young daughter was living with her mother-in-law. She, in turn, wrote "The Double Image", a poem which explores the multi-generational relationship between mother and daughter.
John Martin Finlay (January 24, 1941 – February 17, 1991) was an American poet and writer of essays, reviews, fiction, letters, and diaries.. Finlay is best known for his posthumously published poetry collection, Mind and Blood: The Collected Poems of John Finlay.