Books / Published Poems:
“’Slice of life’ isn’t a term one hears much anymore,
but reading Sister’s pages it sprang to mind,
in all its resonant meanings. These are tactful, beautiful poems of grief-acknowledgement
and deep connection, each holding a clean-cut wedge of the clearly see, the
precisely felt, the fully lived.”
—Jane Hirshfield
“The poems in Karen Benke’s Sister ring with what real sisters are: sweet, sad, moving, as fragile and tough as everything human. They are laced with a love so permanent and hesitant nothing can shake it.”
—Molly Fisk
Sister can be found at these Bay Area Independent Booksellers:
The Depot Bookstore, Mill Valley www.depotbookstore.com
Book Passage, Corte Madera www.bookpassage.com
City Lights, San Francisco www.citylights.com
Associated Students Bookstore, Chico www.csuchico.edu
(Click on bookstore) Or contact the author at karen@karenbenke.com