BREAKING THE MAP | Poems
A journey through mythical Vietnam, contemporary America, and the enduring landscape of memory.
"Simply put, this is a wonderful first collection....This is a geography that demands attention."
- Samuel Green, Washington State Poet Laureate
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- Paul Constant, The Stranger
"Kim-An Lieberman’s gorgeous poems don’t just map human experience, they crawl through its dust, searching. Her subjects are sometimes mythical, fanciful—a lover sprouts wings, a water buffalo arrives in the suburbs—but even the mundane is magnified by language that is startling, and exquisitely precise..."
- Kathleen Flenniken, Floating Bridge Press
"...whatever forty-year-old image we might still remember from Vietnam or America that is part real and part television, she makes whole, new, and vibrant. She makes us a witness more than reader."
- Shawn Wong, Author of Homebase and American Knees