The Same Amount of Ink " Patricia Caspers' poems flourish

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

When my daughter was born

Victims of war escape only to be confronted by the merciless apathy of the world

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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,