Helen Degen Cohen's remarkable poetic memoir re-enters the mind of the child, who understands nothing and accepts everything, for whom experience consists of discrete, often luminous, images. There is a floating, Chagall-like qulaity about many of these deeply moving poems.

                    - Lisel Mueller

What strikes me in Helen Degen Cohen's poetry is how the leaden material of history is lifted and made to soar by the vitality of the poet's imagination - sometimes surreal, sometimes witty, sometimes merely glorious.

                    - Alicia Ostiker

...a voice of authority mixed with childlike innocence, a voice isolated from norms, both engendered by and expressing a state of innocence as well as knowledge. Its power is immense...

                    - Lucia Getsi