To a Sad Daughter Summary
Michael Ondaatje

To a Sad Daughter Summary

"To a Sad Daughter" appears in Michael Ondaatje's 11th collection of poetry, Secular Love, published in 1984. In "Coming Through: A Review of Secular Love," critic Sam Solecki comments that the poems in this book read "more like the chapters of a novel than parts of a collection." "To a Sad Daughter," however, can easily be pulled from the rest and enjoyed alone, for it encompasses a theme common in many of our lives...

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