The Dividings takes the reader on a journey from “setting out” to “crossing over,” with junctures along the way that demand or invite attention and decision.

The Dividings

Literature & Fiction

Becker, Kimberly L.

Poetry

WordTech Editions

In WORDS FACING EAST, poetry performs a ceremony over loss, while celebrating what endures.

Words Facing East

WordTech Communications LLC

FLIGHT takes its shape from a Cherokee ceremony for the dead, with balancing movements of remembranceand release. The book explores both internal and external processes of enmity/loss, circling towards a postureof peace/acceptance, even when things cannot be forgotten due to personal or intergenerational trauma. FLIGHT--with its double meaning of fleeing and ascendance--mines the tension between memory andforgetting and highlights the danger of not bringing things to light. Physical and spiritual manifestations of lossgive rise to an uneasy reconciliation of past and present, where beauty does not go unnoticed and ordinarymoments become sacred offerings.

Flight

MadHat Press

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.

Bringing Back the Fire

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

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The Dividings

Words Facing East

Flight

Bringing Back the Fire