A daughter of survivors gives voice to the passion and pain of post-holocaust experience in this extraordinary first book of poetry by Isa Milman. Ancient Hebrew melodies sing of a family and life now lost, and the revelation of a new world, as the poet wrestles with identity and personal ‘place.’

Isa Milman is a poet, visual artist and occupational therapist who has lived in Canada for the past 30 years. Her first poetry collection, Between the Doorposts, won the 2005 Poetry Prize at the Canadian Jewish Book Awards. She has also published a poetry chapbook, Seven Fat Years; her work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies.A daughter of Holocaust survivors, Isa Milman was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany before immigrating to Boston. A graduate of Tufts University, she lived in San Francisco and Paris while pursuing improvisational dance and theatre activities. With a masters degree in rehabilitation science, she taught occupational therapy at McGill University and currently works at the Victoria Epilepsy & Parkinson’s Centre.

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