What they’re saying about Psalms for a Child Who Has Lost Her Mother . . .

“It's under an ‘infinite wingspan’ that Carol Japha gathers together the painful details of a child losing her mother. With no sentimentality, the poems chronicle the child's immersion in the unthinkable—a rare and revealing achievement.”

— Mary Ann Larkin, author of A Shimmering That Goes With Us

“By listening within to the child she was when her mother died, Carol Japha has created a beautiful, moving book of poetry that captures so many aspects of that devastating experience. I will be giving it to all my clients who lost a parent at an early age.”

— Richard C. Schwartz, author of You Are the One You've Been Waiting For

“With the innocent simplicity of a child's understanding and the honed language of an adult poetic sensibility, Japha offers hard-earned crystalline wisdom.”

 — Amy Weintraub, author of Temple Dancer and Yoga for Depression

“This volume not only offers the gift of stark, profound understanding to a child who has lost a parent at a tender age (or to the child that lives in an adult such as myself), but also amazingly somehow manages to inspire healing, hope and possibility. I simply love these poems. I read them over and over.”

— Pat Ogden, author of Trauma and the Body

“Carol Japha invites us to share her loss even as this young girl fights to stem the tidal wave of feelings and preserve the world as she once knew it. It touches the heart because we can feel its simple truth.”

— Janina Fisher, author of Healing the Living Legacy of Trauma

“I would recommend these compelling poems to patients of all ages who have experienced early loss, to parents and educators of young children, bereavement therapists and counselors, and other health professionals.”

— Mary Sussillo, director, Center for Bereavement, New York City

“These are powerful poems that capture loss, not only the loss of a mother, but of the ‘birthright’ of memory and mourning.”

— Constance Waeber Elsberg, author of Graceful Women