Kirjahaku

Becker's poems struggle for the acceptance of aloneness, and the shunning of anything that hinders transcendence. She finds assurance in the story of the water spider-how something so small could bring the sacred light to the world after others had failed. Her work achieves autonomy through illness. "When one inherits trauma, / it is in the blood. In the bones.

Rivers flow in Kimberly L. Becker's poems. The words and images come together from a land of disappeared, drowned places in song like water, telling stories and singing songs of justice, reparation, remembrance and blood. Becker's voice resounds in the open places of these poems.