Kim Breneman: 3 books

Why Must Her Secrets Be Published? covers a silence that lasted from 1980-2002. It explores secrets in poems such as fragrant white and gertrude stein roars. It also explores changes in the authors style through the years. Kim Breneman first book, Minutes Are Circling Spokes, was published in 2002.

This book covers a wide range - from the attack on the World Trade Center to manic depression to poems responding to Emily Dickinsons. There are poems about Stein and Van Gogh, not to mention lambent poems to Sue. Anyone who cracks this book will feel well nurtured. In an age where prose prevails, these poems are lyrical, yet there are several non-rhyming poems with microscopic color.

While the world’s refugee population reaches record high numbers, countries offering third-country resettlement are increasingly shifting toward policies of exclusion and austerity. This edited volume envisions a more humane future for refugee resettlement. Combining anthropology with a variety...