I Carry My Mother by Leslea Newman bilingual Other topics and themes include

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I Carry My Mother by Leslea Newman bilingual Other topics and themes includeListen to our podcast with author Lesla Newman here: I Carry My Mother is a book length cycle of poems that explores a daughters journey through her mothers illness and death. From diagnosis through yahrtzeit (one year anniversary), the narrator grapples with what it means to lose a mother. The poems, written in a variety of forms (sonnet, pantoum, villanelle, sestina, terza rima, haiku, and others) are finely crafted, completely accessible, and full