ALICE JAMES BOOKS
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FALL 2010 Catalog NEW BOOKS
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