Mother-Ghosts
Sewell, Leah
Leah Sewell's exquisite collection MOTHER-GHOSTS devastates in the way that all the best poems do--with deft beauty and haunting honesty. With fierce mother-love and the fear that is born of it, these poems leave us reaching for a wisp of dream and clutching a child's nightgown. Sewell's mother-ghosts sweep readers with both lyric and emotional intensity, and like good mothers, they will never leave us, nor would we want them to. --Amy Fleury,...