My Mother Joins the Resistance - Paperback

by Richard Harrison (Contribution by)

All there is, is light and darkness and wonder.
And in that moment, there is no difference, either,
between love and the memory of love. - "Up Above the World"

In this latest collection Richard Harrison has created a companion to his Governor General Award-winning collection On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood. In My Mother Joins the Resistance, Harrison considers his mother's life - from her time as a child during WWII's Operation Pied Piper, up until its end, in 2017, when terminally ill with cancer, she chose MAiD - with elegant, deeply felt poetry. These are beautiful poems, ones that piece together a person, a life and a family over generations. These are poems that examine the wounds passed down through a family, alongside the love, and see the echoes of both - the wounds and the love - in the world around us.