Penumbra by Kate Behrens Poetry Magisterial in its command and

Magisterial in its command and range

Roy Rogers

Now We Can Talk Openly About Men is made up of dramatic monologues

A student of the everyday

Penumbra by Kate Behrens Poetry Magisterial in its command andIn Penumbra, Kate Behrens third collection, the poems are linked by themes of dislocation and heredity. If the dead are ever present here, so is love: the absence of, rewards and longing for it, the endurance and effort of it. We are led from the poets bohemian childhood to the complex grief, in middle age, that followed the death of her painter father, and on to individual animals, people, and even trees that are differently uprooted or burdened.