Prayer for the Dead

In Prayer for the Dead Margaret Dornaus highlights the warp and weave of life stepping carefully among memories with love humor and compassion. She captures the imprint of interactions with her mother father other family members even strangers not only in meditative haibun and tanka but also in surprising links and shifts between narratives. With insight gained from joining heart to mind her reflections on people places and time illustrate what it means to be human. A captivating courageous book Prayer for the Dead is elegantly life affirming.--Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton President Tanka Society of America