D.A.'s Reviews > Starshine & Clay

Grief and sorrow cannot prevail where there exists such sympathetic and empathetic forces as those summoned in the poems of Kamilah Aisha Moon. A litany of deaths, both public and personal, sends shockwaves of violence through these pages with an almost overwhelming regularity. "I understand why many choose not to look--it really does take my breath away." But there is no surrender nor despondency here. Instead, there is within these words transmission of an elemental strength that transcends all suffering, an abiding belief in human perseverance that ("like a tree that's planted by the water," declares that great old song) shall not be moved.