Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi Holland Park Press I’m in love with this

I’m in love with this book

but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle

in the period of new-found freedom after the fall of communism

he was United States Poet Laureate in 2010-11

Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi Holland Park Press I’m in love with thisA teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again. Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isnt always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day, she doesnt. Silence becomes Rubys refuge, sheltering her from the weather of her mothers mental illness and a pressurized suburban atmosphere. Plangent,