“Rayya Liebich’s debut collection presents bereavement’s value as a tribute to love. Her mother’s unexpected death in Geneva is treated with a tenderness and respect that is unusual in North America. Min Hayati unfolds with joy and delights that will make you weep. Rayya Liebich is a poet of elegance and grace, sagacity and wit.”
?Susan Andrews Grace, author of Philosopher at the Skin Edge of Being

“To make sense of her mother’s death, Rayya Liebich has created a collection of acute, aching poems that explore the themes of grief”s spectrum: disbelief, anger, sadness, loneliness, acceptance and reconciliation. Liebich’s imagery is infused with the physical body, the very marrow of being alive, which she deftly weaves with everyday objects that startle with sudden meaning. This collection will move you, cradle you in a longing for homeland, of what it means to lose, and it will land you in a place of slow, alluring reclamation.”
?Tara Cunningham, Editor, Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine