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"The energy one discovers in Eileen Albrizio's new collect is restless and dynamic, a shape-shifting power the poet harnesses with panache. For Abrizio clearly understands, at a profound level, the relationship between content and form. To say that Albrizio is versatile understates the case: here one finds work in the sonnet, villanelle, pantoum and kyrielle forms, among others, not to mention meters from the ballad measure to terza rima. Poems driven by memory and by imagination reveal the discerning mind of a writer engaged and mesmerized by the great panoply of the human." — Gray Jacobik ... Read more

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Contemporary poetry at its best!
A true classic.This book is a must for every student, teacher and lover of art and literature.She is a philospher.Her verse-play is a true classic - not experienced since Jean-Paul Sartre.Her poetry, the same.To read Albrizio's work is to understand the human condition.When I read her words I can hear them.Her poetry sings! ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anne Sexton, Edwidge Danticat, Joseph M. Williams, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Lucinda Roy, Fred D'aguiar, Eileen Albrizio, Cris Cheek, Alan Wearne, Demetria Royals, Louis George Alexander, Sven Birkerts, Rosellen Brown, Azi, Judy Waite, Gina B. Nahai. Excerpt:Alan Wearne (born 1948) is an Australian poet. Alan Wearne was born and grew up in Melbourne . He studied history at Monash University where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott . After publishing two collections of poetry, he wrote a verse novel , The Nightmarkets , published in 1986 which won the Banjo Award and was adapted for performance. His next book in the same genre, The Lovemakers , won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award . The first half of the novel was published by Penguin , and its second by the ABC in 2004 as The Lovemakers: Book Two, Money and Nothing and co-won The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Colin Roderick Award and the H. T. Priestly Medal. Despite this critical success neither book was promoted properly and both volumes ended up being pulped. Shearsman Press in the UK has since republished the book in a single volume. Alan Wearne's latest work, "The Australian Popular Songbook" was published in 2008 by Giramondo Publishing. He currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong . Books Websites (URLs online) References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Anne Sexton Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts ) was an influential American poet and writer known for her highly personal, confessional poetry . She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her poetry include her long battle with depression . After repeated attempts, ... ... Read more

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Eileen Albrizio writes entirely in formal verse. Thispowerful 90-page collection is deeply emotional, highly charged,sometimes witty, and very, very honest! Combining dark contemporaryrealities with classic grace, this new book is a necessary edition toevery poetry collection! Check out the artist's web page for examplesof her work, and links to more! ... Read more

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A brave and powerful experience...what poetry should be!
This book is visually appealing and powerfully stimulating on every level.Albrizio's poetry has exposed her soul, and touched mine.Her use of form is exceptional!I had no idea formal verse could be so freeing.It seemsshe uses the photographs, which are scattered throughout the book as poemsas well, bringing out only a moment or a word and making it completelyvisual.

I loved "The Thinning of Filomena", a poem thatportrays a traditional woman who is admired for her great (Italian)cooking, only to starve herself to the point of being hospitalized.Thepoem took me through the kitchen.I smelled the calamari, and tasted thebitter lemon, and was shocked by Filomena's ultimate fate.The poemcombines a difficult rhyme scheme, that is not even noticeable upon thefirst read.It is smooth and never forced.

Another example is"Antidepressants".A poem that combines repetition and rhyme toshow the chronic, cyclical patterns of depression.

And "PrettyGirls", a sarcastic, almost tongue-in-cheek look at our basicinsecurities, and the debilitating role we all play in keeping each otherdown. It, like all of her poetry, grabs hold of the emotions we hidedeepest in our hearts and brings them to surface, all the while,surrounding it with perfect form.

A true work of art.I would recommendit to anyone, young or old!

Incredible depth of emotion and deftness of language
Albrizio's poetry has a wonderfully classic feel.It grabs hold of dark and often overwhelming emotions and clips its wings, and puts it in a cage.

I've read her poems over and over, like I have with all of the greatpoets of the early twentieth century. Poetry that is truly art.This isthe kind of book that should be in every classroom.It is a fine exampleof the proper use of form, while at the same time entertaining and moving.Even the seemingly simple poems, such as Haiku and rondolet aresurprisingly powerful and complex. There is a layer to everything, so Ialways have something different to look forward to when I reread the poem. Each word is carefully picked, without ever feeling forced. It also isextraordinarily visual.The imagery is sharp, and the scatteredphotographs are a compliment.

I can't wait for her next book. ... Read more

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PERENNIALS is Albrizio's third print collection of poetry and marks a break from her use of traditional forms. Her first two books consisted of poems written exclusively in formal verse. Although PERENNIALS includes some her most well-received poems from her first collections, it also consists of more than 30 new poems that are largely written in free verse or in forms of her own creation.. The Greater Hartford Arts Council and the New Boston Fund have honored with excellence several free-verse poems that were later included in the first chapter of this book. ... Read more

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5 3/8"x8 3/8" 85 page paperback published in 2001. Published by Ye Olde Font Shoppe and printed by Morris Publishing in 2001-First edition. ... Read more