Praise for Listening to Africa:
“In Listening to Africa, Diana M. Raab makes a pilgrimage from the ‘familiar neon of home’ in Amercia to Africa, bringing her family, her passion and her pen. Her moving words carry us with her in narrative poems replete with vision, humor, and irony. In her inner and outer journey, the poet transforms fear and sadness into beauty and love as her heart opens ‘in this place which will remind you of your reason for living.”
“Diana M. Raab takes us on a joyous poetic journey of words and photos. She juxtaposes her wisdom, essential wellness, and depth of feeling to explore four-legged friends, illness, and hope, making this an extremely powerful collection.”
“Diana Raab’s Listening to Africa is a narrative poetry collection that vividly describes her travels to the heart of Africa, where she and her family traveled to experience the beauty and fascination of another world. During her safari, she observes the distress, the delight, and the dignity of the humans and animals who live there and parallels them to her own quest for health. Susan Wooldridge says this about the collection, “the poet transforms fear and sadness into beauty and love as her heart opens ‘in this place which will remind you of your reason for living.’ “
“This thought-provoking, moving poetry collection captures the essence of all that is Africa and more. Travel alongside Raab and her family as they take off from America, visit Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe, and ponder the author’s reflections of all she’s learned as her family heads back to the States. This is a collection you’ll read more than once.”
