Yerra Sugarman's poems give us rebirth and mourning, recollection and the pain and challenge of renewal. These are poems of permanence; of how we leave an imprint upon each other and the world, literal and figurative, where torches get passed, imperceptibly, from person to person, where one person's experience turns into another responsibility to tell. There's the terrible burden of knowledge, and the understanding that history must be re-shaped and uncovered, for to leave it unexamined and un More...