Softness for a Hard World

Softness for a Hard World: Poems & Photographs brings together poems and photographs that cushion the hardness of life in a sometimes difficult world. Joining exquisite photographic details of flowers with poems that tell of "pussy willow softness" and the garden of "hope's nobility," Judith Krum and Kimberly Burke have produced a volume in which cone flowers are likened to ballerinas' skirts that soften the stump of a live oak and "untamed meadows" provide a balm for loneliness. The white whispers of dandelions await the tyranny of time, and a lady on a swing is silhouetted in a cup of white rose petals. In this their first collaborative effort, award-winning poet Judith Krum and photographer Kimberly Burke present readers with a full color feast for their eyes as well as for their imaginations. Softness for a Hard World: Poems & Photographs is a paperback, available on amazon.com and through other retail outlets.