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parable of hide and seek Chad Sweeney 3EPTEMBERÂŹ )3." ÂŹ ÂŹPAPERÂŹ ÂŹ
“Chad Sweeney’s poems are matryoshka dolls of imagination: strangeness inside longing inside charm. Relentlessly ďŹ gurative, they read as dreamscapes and translations: if the human soul has peripheral vision, these poems are what it sees. And gentleness, gentleness abounds here, and makes me think the point of fancy is to unite, to bring one thing beside another and build a home of their touch. I penciled a small equation on this manuscript: imagination=optimism. Not so small, really.â€? —Bob Hicok “The poems in Chad Sweeney’s new book view the world through strangely faceted eyes (perhaps those of a dragony?)—actually they behold it, and as such they display a dazzling Rumiesque ecstasy, one that holds the reader as rapt as the creator of these poems is held by Creation. At any rate he is a shaman presiding over—of all things—the wedding of simplicity and sophistication.â€? ―Mary Ruee
milk dress Nicole Cooley .OVEMBERÂŹ )3". ÂŹ PAPERÂŹWITHÂŹmAPSÂŹ ÂŹ “These are poems of birth and motherhood. They begin with a new life and end in a new self. They probe deep into the places where love extinguishes identity and yet renews awareness. What is so compelling here is that the arc of this journey is described with such music, craft and rigor in this wonderful collection.â€? —Eavan Boland “If it’s possible for a book to account for why and how mothering changes everything: so many things change everything: in this book, in the background and sometimes in the foreground, New York City after The World Trade Center Towers were destroyed, New Orleans after Katrina’s devastations, a woman’s body after a baby takes it over, a woman’s body when it’s an extension of a baby, a poet’s body understanding our elemental destiny, Milk Dress is a meticulous chronicle of devotion and terror, love and responsibility. To watch a poet with a poet’s skill with words and music address what is, after all, that without which we would have nothing, is exhilarating and what we have poetry for.â€? —Dara Wier
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*ANUARYÂŹ )3". ÂŹ PAPERÂŹ ÂŹ “Laura McCullough’s Panic is a news broadcast from the edge—literally, the shoreline, the coast where New Jersey’s towns give onto open water, and ďŹ guratively, the nervous boundary of contemporary life, with its negligence and violence. McCullough seems to possess a sort of psychic hidden camera: a restless, obsessive eye looking deeper and deeper into occasions of disaster both personal and public. Somewhere between Edgar Lee Masters and C. P. Cavafy, these plain-spoken, character-ďŹ lled poems will haunt readers with an unsettlingly familiar landscape: the swimming pools and boardwalks and shorelines of our darkest, most anxious American nights.â€? —Mark Doty “Lovely and vigilant poems lay bare those seen and unseen forces that expose us again and again to our own mortality, to our daily yearning for beauty and grace. Embracing the narrative range of a novelist, Laura McCullough writes with the razored scrutiny of the ďŹ ne poet she is, making Panic a timely and important book you simply must read.â€? —Andre Dubus III
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