"Her poems urge me to know these histories, not just the fragments which may flicker among headlines, especially now, with so many of the African diaspora as our neighbors, fellow churchgoers and poets, who, as Wesley’s poems remind us, also bear the weight of unhealed racial wounds in the United States." —Kathleen O’Toole, Presence 

"In Praise Song for My Children, we encounter a poet at the height of her skills and at the height of her clarity about the world and what things must be spoken into it. But we are blessed to be given an insight into how she arrives at this place of power—it is a remarkable selection of some of the most urgent poems to emerge out of the wars of Liberia. Here is work of incredible joy, deepest lamentation, and necessary hope. It is a sure testament." —Kwame Dawes, author of City of Bones 

"Patricia Jabbeh Wesley’s poems resound as the seasoned voice of one of Africa’s most consequential poets, and an expert navigator of the Liberian diaspora’s sojourns in the United States. Praise Song for My Children displays her poetic poise in marshalling deep empathy, keen attention, and courage, unmasking the rawest losses of the war that tore her home asunder. These poems do not flinch at grief, mother-love, survivor’s anguish, and victory over the body’s betrayals." —Tsitsi Jaji, author of Beating the Graves