Bread Alone

Poetry, Syracuse University Press, 2009

Jensen’s poems possess a strange beauty and remind us of the key purposes of poetry – to warn and to revive our sense of conscience and connection.

“This powerful work reproduces the shock of the life that millions of people lead in silence, in darkness. These poems can wake up a rock.” —Etel Adnan, author of Sitt Marie Rose

“Kim Jensen’s poems are searing and spare. They will haunt you and stretch your vision. You won’t be the same person after reading them that you were before.” —Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Habibi and Going, Going

“In a time of news about war we can only reflect the devastation of others. What comes in can’t come out. True resistance seems muted, dissolved. Here we arrive at just such a landscape, but perhaps because it is a woman’s terrain, we are at least given bread.”—Fanny Howe