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Andrea Syzdek

Review: Going Head to Head by Wade Stevenson

January 11, 2021

Andrea Syzdek

(Kenmore, NY: BlazeVOX Books 2019) Wade Stevenson’s Going Head to Head is a book-length poem that takes the head as its central theme and uses it as a way to explore various states of being — from the metaphysical to … Continued

Review: Arena by Lauren Shapiro

January 4, 2021

Andrea Syzdek

(Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State Poetry Center 2020) Lauren Shapiro’s second poetry collection, Arena, deals with a father’s attempted suicide and its traumatic aftereffects. These poems move back and forth between lyric and prose modes as the speaker seeks to bring … Continued

Review: Observing the Invisible by Kelly Cherry

January 27, 2020

Andrea Syzdek

(Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2019) Kelly Cherry writes with a cosmic consciousness in her newest poetry collection, Observing the Invisible (Louisiana State University Press, 2019). Divided into four sections, these poems explore space, nature, science, philosophy, music, … Continued

A Review of In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps by Rob Schlegel

October 21, 2019

Andrea Syzdek

(Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2019) Rob Schlegel’s third collection of poems, In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps, is artfully eclectic, an intricate fusion of meditative lyric and personal narrative that explores creative notions of identity … Continued

A Review of My Stunt Double by Travis Denton

April 15, 2019

Andrea Syzdek

(New York: C&R Press, 2018) Travis Denton’s third poetry collection, My Stunt Double, is intricate and ambitious, an excellent fusion of narrative and lyric. Denton creates a world enriched with events that are both natural and surrealistic, cataloguing memories that … Continued

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