Mila Haugova has written a moving book about the farewell of loved
ones and the slipping away of one?s own life. The starting point is
a double loss: her mother dies and her lover goes his own way. During
her dead mother?s childhood and distant past, the loved ones have
faced a hoped-for future. Now only a reduced daily life remains, shot
through with ever present memories. Haugova overlays the departed,
and now recalculated, images of childhood and days spent with her
lover. Is it possible to find some memory of lost warmth in this cold
world?
Re-encounter and farewells are one in Haugova?s poetry: there are intimate
companions in the absence of loved ones, in the acceptance of their
disappearance, which over time develop a cathartic force that makes
possible new love.