Washing My Mother's Body - Joy Harjo

A beautifully illustrated edition of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s poem “Washing My Mother’s Body,” which offers a way through grief when the loss appears unbearable.As I wash my mother’s face, I tell herhow beautiful she is, how brave, how her beauty and braverylive on in her grandchildren. Her face is relaxed, peaceful.Her earth memory body has not left yet,but when I see her the next day, embalmed and in the casketin the funeral home, it will be gone.Where does it go?Through lyrical prose and evocative... Zobrazit více