Review: Painful, but Healing....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 12, 2013
Maybe every parent should be required to read this book before they have children. That way, just in case one parent has the potential to be an emotional or physical abuser, they will check themselves because they will see and understand the pain they cause. You can't help but feel for the composer of these poems as you read them.In any case, it is obvious that the author did suffer from abuse and the loss of her younger brother. But her poems are so beautiful, that she allows us to view it from some distance.It is as if she holds up the mirror to a distant scene. In fact, the tone suggests some lovely pastoral scene quite often, and may that is why the subject is so shocking.This is heart-rending, but beautiful. In the end, I hope the author found peace through expression.