Reviews

"Your poems are so beautifully powerful that I feel the influence of the collective in them. I know this is very personal to you but as I read [Motherlung], I hear the underground river bubbling up. Perhaps an artist is the soft ground that yields to the water beneath bringing the voice of the collective to the surface. This voice yearns to be heard, expressed, here among the living. Perhaps the muse is the personification of the collective consciousness of all human experience. This comforts me to know that we are never alone, never isolated in our pain."

Rita O'Gorman -- writer and student of "The Memory at Work: Writing Your Legacy," an online class offered by Brodsky via AllWriters' Workplace & Workshop

"As Brodsky beautifully demonstrates, the concept of motherhood is actually fluid; as the title of the book implies, a mother is someone who breathes life into her child—biological or not—and sustains her. While it may also become easy to grow dependent on that sustenance, a mother continues to give it until the child grows into an independent force, a mother in her own right."

Issa M. Lewis, author of "Infinite Collisions" -- from book review published in Mom Egg Review.

"Lisa Marie Brodsky's poems are like a knife cutting away subcutaneous fat to reveal the abnormal tissue that needs to be excised before the healing can begin. Motherlung, in its quiet emotive passion, chronicles the tenuous strength of the mother- daughter relationship in terms so stark and final it leaves the reader gasping for breath at the end of each poem . . . and understanding at the end of each life. These poems will stay with you, a perpetual guiding play of light and shadow over the soul."

James P. Roberts -- "Famous Wisconsin Authors"

"These poems are a true glimpse inside the author's greatest loss- that of her mother. Her heart is real and insightful of the thoughts we think and emotions felt after we lose a person so central to the makeup of who we are.

This book of poems is as close to perfect as I have ever read. Lisa Marie Brodsky is a shining lamp of truth in a heart darkened by pain. She triumphs in that it never seems sad, only steps in the process of living after loss.
She triumphs even harder in her courage to go forward and claim her life in love and a new family of her own.

I heard her reading this on a local college radio station and I had to go to the reading. I am lucky I live in Madison, WI and got to meet this wonderful poet."

Laura -- an attendee of the Motherlung launch party, from her review on Goodreads.com