Daun Daemon's debut collection, iiA Prayer for Forgiving My Parents, ii is both a commemoration and celebration. In recovering the past, Daemon unpacks the complicated and at times terrifying tensions within her family where the grit and gumption of a resourceful, entrepreneurial and tender mother is often undercut by a violent father. In such surroundings, a young person treads carefully and creatively. The poet says about her earliest years, I was an origami child, folding myself into shapes. Yet, she succeeds in the way to love, appreciation, and even absolution. iiA Prayer for Forgiving My Parentsii is to quote the poet's words about the door to her childhood bedroom a line of light pushing through the dark. A brave first collection.pbr-Maria Rouphail, PhD, is Senior Lecturer Emerita from the English Department at North Carolina State University. The author of three collections of poetry-iiAperturesi, iSecond Skini, i and most recently, iiAll the Way to Chinaii-she is the poetry ed