Gasping for Air - Katherine Trace Brueck

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Résumé :
Gasping for Air: Stories of Adults and Children portrays a dark sensibility and profound compassion for children scarred by the neglect and abuse of adults meant to protect them. Unsettling and unforgettable, the collection is a stark reminder of the precariousness of childhood innocence. Through short stories, poems, poems-within-stories, and stories-within-poems, the book paints a troubling vision, at times starkly real and at others vividly dreamlike, of the complex relationship between adults and children.

Biographie:
Dr. Katherine Brueck taught for over 35 years at Mount Saint Mary's University in Los Angeles, where she served as Professor and English Department Chair. A talented poet, she published a poetry collection Voiceless Love, Finishing Line Press, 2016, and published sonnets in a variety of literary journals, including Blue Unicorn, The Lyric, and Troubadour. She also authored the scholarly work The Redemption of Tragedy, The Literary Vision of Simone Weil, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1995, that developed a theory of Christian tragedy. With her passing in October of 2020, she is survived by her husband Don, her daughters, Heidi and Emily, and her granddaughters, Chloe and Violet.