The Same Amount of Ink " Patricia Caspers' poems flourish

" Patricia Caspers' poems flourish and grow by turning themselves undaunted to the light

Lynne Potts displays a deft lyrical hand in The Relentless Pronoun

doomed to repeat itself

which is the ink did not transfer smoothly to the paper

The Same Amount of Ink " Patricia Caspers' poems flourishSusan Berlins poems demand to be read from the first page to the last in one seemingly breathless sitting. Here the domestic is dangerous. This poet makes a music of loss and despair that catches us off guard. Her rhymes, rather than bringing closure or relief at a poems end, leave us vulnerable, a little wounded, recognizing our own sins of omission, the ways weve shut down to life. Berlin interrogates that numb place and, by the act of creation,