“In Prayers for the Lost & for the Living, Dina Greenberg explores what it means to be human. Ultimately, time and place do not make us what we are. At the core of our being, it is yearning for connection, for care and concern, for deep love. In these poems and stories, the churning of one’s heart provides the tension: grief and hope, these are our defining emotions. Greenberg reminds us that hope is stronger.”
—Jill Gerard, Lecturer University of North Carolina Wilmington, Editor Chautauqua Literary Journal.
“This is a brave book, a subversive book…Greenberg asks for our empathy, our identification. One poem, “First Born,” asks for us to empathize with a mother elephant whose infant is stillborn. And with Greenberg’s masterful writing, how can we not. She doesn’t shy away from the hard experiences of life but she lets us know the importance of tears, that really feeling our grief is the way that will bring some relief.”
—Anne Becker, Poet Laureate Emerita, Takoma Park, Md.
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