A fierce book, intense with craft. This doctor-poet can really stitch words together: tight, unadorned and razor sharp tailored to fit brilliantly. – Dr Robyn Rowland, Australian Poetry Centre
This is fluent, well crafted poetry but it is not always comfortable as Leah Kaminsky takes us on a journey with her father fleeing from Poland to escape the holocaust, then as a doctor struggling to keep her commitment to her patients, and finally to Haifa, raising children under constant danger from rockets and suicide bombers.
It is deeply felt poetry, gaining its power from precision and understatement. It is poetry which recalls Carolyn Forche’s compelling anthology ‘Against Forgetting’. – Ron Pretty
These are poems ‘tattooed with the history of war’, of portraits and voices, of departures and returns. Kaminsky stitches through the fabric of life, patching it ‘together with love’ to write of what it means to be a mother, daughter, doctor, poet and émigré. – Libby Hart, Poet