Pam Bernard
a Featured Poet
of New Hampshire

Across the Dark
A collection of
poems selected by
Yusef Komunyakaa
Published by:
Main Street Rag Press
In his essay entitled
"The Hour Of Poetry,"
John Berger writes:
"Poetry makes language care because it renders everything intimate. This intimacy is the result of the poem’s labour, the result of the bringing-together-into-intimacy of every act and noun and event and perspective to which the poem refers. There is often nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty and indifference of the world than this caring." Berger’s "caring" extends to the notion of all art, and is, I believe, the thing that moves us. I am touched by this voice, rising up from objects, and from the page, just as we hear something in anonymous scribblings in the margins of a used book. It is in the marginsof our senses, perhaps--in that region of correspondence--where we might connect emotionally with another. Inexplicable, unlocatable, it is, nevertheless, a region for which I strive in my paintings and poems.
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