Into a Mirror and Through a Lens: Forty Poems on the Mother/Child Relationship from Conception to Marriage

Victoria Greenleaf is a psychiatrist whose poetry explores meaning and beauty at the interface of nature and art. Through subtle, insightful observations and understandings that every parent will recognize, this chronological collection depicts the anguish and elation of the mother/child relationship, and the struggle and sacrifice of a gifted woman who, while desiring both, must choose between the demands of career and those of family.