When My Mother is Most Beautiful Author|P. Sherman combines lyric intensity with narrative

combines lyric intensity with narrative sweep

a reference manual for life

The Roots of Defeat tells the story of the New Deal Democratic Party and how changes in the world economy brought it down in the 1970s

Every human being has these skills

When My Mother is Most Beautiful Author|P. Sherman combines lyric intensity with narrativeWhen My Mother is Most Beautiful is at once a powerful love letter to a mother and to language itself, delving into complex questions of family, communication, culture, and connection. These poems chronicle the difficult art of navigating multiple cultural identities, examining how languages twist and morph across cultures through the imperfect act of translation, how they bind people together and keep them apart, and even how they could be reimagined