Housebreak by Shareen K. Murayama Andres Ehin provide hope and give courage

provide hope and give courage in the most trying circumstances

The book includes a full afterword by the award-winning poet and writer Richard Gwyn

First published by Azul Editions in 1993

This reading renders the original in readable contemporary English but also keeps as close as it can to the older

Housebreak by Shareen K. Murayama Andres Ehin provide hope and give courageIn this astonishing collection, Murayama speaks to grief both deeply personal and shared, from the loss of loved ones to communal and national wounds. She writes, We strive to live in the pocket of the wave where the energy is brightest. So too, these poems, while haunted by profound loss, careen ceaselessly toward light. Erin Mizrahi Every minute, every year, you icebreak, she writes, referencing a grief rooted in the present and a product of