The Atrocity of Water

& 34;Kirsten Hemmy& 39;s remarkable book of poems, The Atrocity of Water, reaches us in the deep places of the heart where only a poem can go, where the reader will& 39;want to know what survives us.& 39; These are wise poems that penetrate the mind with their brutal honesty. Again and again, we are broken and mended and again broken because ours is a world& 39;built on enslaved sweat,& 39; a world where& 39;all the tragedies of the world are a silence.& 39; This book is the voice of thousands who cannot tell their own stories. Kirsten is a brave poet, seeking to restore to us that world that was lost, a world she has seen not only in her dreams. These powerful poems are urgently relevant.& 34; - Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of Where the Road Turns