Psalms for a Child Who Has Lost Her Mother
Poems that explore love and loss, the mother-daughter bond, the search for identity and connection.
“This I missed:
my shape,
her image,
silhouette, profile,
resemblance.”
What People Are Saying
“In these beautifully spare poems, Carol Japha gives voice, with uncanny accuracy, to a young girl’s bereavement.”
--Nancy Willard, author of Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems
“I simply love these poems. I read them over and over.”
--Pat Ogden, author of
Trauma and the Body