”too many words, these hard-wrought sutras to your mother's memory (and beyond), strike such a balance; not trying to represent (your ma sounds like she wouldn't suffer representation gladly!) but portraying that space between you two… so tenderly. I find it heartening the way you've been able to tell of shared imperatives: the creating: the impulse and pulse of sewing, whittling, amalgamating: providing light for these parallels that make up an inheritance in acts of replication and deviation.” Edric Mesmer

“Ultimately it is new proximities to others that balance out the harshness of the carried past, the kindness of the father that balances out the meanness of the mother, the rituals performed over and over at the site of other deaths, and the need to move and escape both the place and the belonging to which and through which family creates ties, that balance out the scraping drag of inheritance. In a “communal effort to connect / as in sharing gains and losses” Anderson Moseman writes, “we become water in motion / hoping others can open words anew”: she favours “motion not nation.” Jérôme Melançon