Penumbra by Kate Behrens happenstance press and the voices of schoolchildren

and the voices of schoolchildren and immigrants

and the memories they evoke

almost magical stages that make us what we are – people who create people

There are often competing versions – of Lorca

Lorraine Mariner

Penumbra by Kate Behrens happenstance press and the voices of schoolchildrenIn 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.