This is a great review! Sandman Simondss new book is out from Bloof Books & Publishers Weekly loved it: Simonds’s sonnets are uncaged, snarling, rooting creatures, ferreting about the mind like it’s a shoebox of memorabilia. These sonnets execute that mysterious task which only poems can: expose the connective roots of memories, objects, and beings, despite how dissonant the universe can feel. … [Her] lines twist like DNA strands, the sequence coded yet the result unpredictable. …[She] playfully and powerfully writes in the recognition of every attempt at self-preservation, as if there were a way to shield/ oneself from the messy galaxy of the human heart. (Read the rest)
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:04:18 +0000