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"di brandt's mother, not mother probes the reality of a life filled with dualities and uncertainties... [it] stands as testimony to the remarkable range of poetic devices brandt uses in expressing her worded truths."- Books in Canada "di brandt's poems spill out of their taut couplet form into the reader's listening heart. These are miraculously wide-open poems, raging and ecstatic, speaking always the language of a woman who has eaten the dragon and lived to sing of it to us, intimately, insistently, the language of deep conversation between selves, daughters in a violent world."- Daphne Marlatt