Janet Karam

The Threadbare Narratives Janet Karam

"Sometimes, there are no words, / and only the ocean within you responds," says the author in her poem, "Saved In The Cloud." But in this extraordinary book of compassionate, beautifully wrought poems, Janet Karam does find the words, and they are poignant, rough-tender, magnificent. The Threadbare Narratives sheds light on the most neglected and abused amongst us, the old, the sick, the destitute, the innocent. Janet Karam has done a remarkable thing - she's taken this abandoned population of hard-luck survivors and not only given them a voice, she's given them back their humanity.-Alexis Rhone Fancher author of Enter Here, poetry editor of Cultural Weekly