The Same Amount of Ink and powerful

and powerful

and desire on both personal and planetary scales

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

" says a wife to her husband

Bill Yarrow continues to push the boundaries of modern poetry and the results are always astounding

The Same Amount of Ink and powerfulSusan 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,