Within the Trifles

In her newest poetry collection, Within the Trifles, Brems in her refreshingly unconventional style once again leaves her mark on ordinary details of everyday lives - a small child who learns a life lesson from a tiny broken egg fallen from a bird's nest, a widower who takes comfort and support in the offerings of a peach tree he's looked after for thirty years. Brems' keen powers of observation and persistent search for meaning in the mundane deliver the reader from complacency.

-Katherine...