A collection of poems written for and about an adopted two-year-old Chinese daughter by her adoptive parents, this book is of special interest to families of adopted children, Chinese and otherwise, and to lovers of fine poetry. Written in the distinctive voices of both mother and father, the poems explore the joys and troubles of parenthood and the experiences of becoming a family.

Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter

Literature & Fiction

Siegel, Joan I.

Solonche, Joel

Poetry

Grayson Books

<p>Poetry. "These passionate, caring poems range seamlessly from personal lyric to public outcry, from a pair of well-turned pantoums of childhood memories to a poem that rewrites the liturgy of a responsive reading from the Passover service. Siegel knows how to go for the small specific details that illuminate even the darkest subjects"--Maxine Kumin. "HYACINTH FOR THE SOUL is a beautifully well-worked piece of imagination: ironic, lyrical, and elegant. Siegel's poems so often begin in daily living, poems that value the very simple or modest: what 'abides' or 'suffices.' Sometimes somber, and sometimes happy, her poems shoot out into the cosmos and let us look at our living from that vantage. There are the pleasures of metaphor, where the parts of an idea suddenly condense or burst into a completely new structure that we recognize immediately: the 'shape turning in the flame'"--Rosemary Deen.</p>

Hyacinth for the Soul

Deerbrook Editions

"Subdued beauty surrounds the reader from the first breath of Joan Siegel's new book, Light at Point Reyes. If there is a Golden Mean, then Siegel has found it, balancing a realistic vision of a starving, brutal, torn world, and the exquisite joy that comes with small recognitions provided by art and human love. In these poems, I felt the power of Wordsworth, the silky lyricism of Debussy, and the centered presence of an artist, like Georgia O'Keeffe." - Diane Wakoski, author of Argonaut Rose

Light at Point Reyes

Shabda Press

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