Kathleen Kramer

Everything Matters Kathleen Kramer

In Everything Matters, her newest volume of poetry, Kathleen Kramer has used her own photographs as sparks and seeds for the poems which richly inhabit this collection. In so doing, she has given both poets and photographers and their fellow travelers a great gift. Poets will find here yet again her inimitable gifts of patient attending to what wants to be revealed along with the rigorous discipline of finding just the needed words to sing her subjects into being on the page.

Photographers will discover that her photographs also sing when we forego the all too common descriptors of our efforts as "snapshots" or "captures." With her gentle and loving attention to each of these beautiful images, Kramer has taken us further into her own unique spiritual language of glory and praise. Having read and re-read this volume with the slowness needed, we come to see poem and image as together doing what all classic religious Icons do: open our hearts to the silent center, where we can be still and lovingly know another being, even as we in turn are known and loved.