Softness Cynthia Yuan Cheng the eldest daughter: bright

the eldest daughter: bright

and at rehearsals — pirouetting

confiding tone and sense of the absurd are highly congenial

destroying the means to reprint the book

Softness Cynthia Yuan Cheng the eldest daughter: brightBy Jean Oberlander. Published by Common Threads Press. Softcover, 32 pages, Prose with Monochrome Illustrations, 2025 Unravelling the semantics of the ugly jumper, the ratty cardigan and the squishy mittens. Softness is a poetic reflection on hand knitting and the neglected objects that give us nourishment. A straggly jumper, shrunken in a hot wash. A frayed sleeve, mended with different wool. A garish sweater, coffee stained but decidedly unwashed,