When My Mother is Most Beautiful Author|P. Sherman The language shines

The language shines

and acute observations of a historian and social activist

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" -Tammy Nichols Birmingham Alabama

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When My Mother is Most Beautiful Author|P. Sherman The language shinesWhen My Mother is Most Beautiful is at once a powerful love letter to a mother and to language itself, delving into complex questions of family, communication, culture, and connection. These poems chronicle the difficult art of navigating multiple cultural identities, examining how languages twist and morph across cultures through the imperfect act of translation, how they bind people together and keep them apart, and even how they could be reimagined