The Same Amount of Ink doomed to repeat itself

doomed to repeat itself

and powerful

and find solutions for peace

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

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

The Same Amount of Ink doomed to repeat itselfSusan 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,