Jan Chronister

Casualties Jan Chronister

Perhaps this small book of poems could be called "Survivors" because, for every casualty, there is (hopefully) someone to remember and tell the story. Chronister's poems are short, but there is strength in their brevity. These are poems of the Holocaust and war, of families, survival, and the human spirit's desire to live. These poems take sharp jabs at history. They simmer with memory and who is responsible. How could this happen? Maybe when the lilacs bloom, there is hope. Karla Huston, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2017-2018, author of "A Theory of Lipstick" (Main Street Rag Publications: 2013) and "Grief Bone" (Five Oaks Press: 2017).