A woozy logic dominates these poems: a heart can become a buzzing hive of bees, a rooster can trigger a series of bombs, a young man can embrace a city bus as his spirit animal. Yet Bazzett slices through his poems with a dangerous sense of humor. “Your humor is deft and cutting / my fingers off one by one,” as one poem puts it. Once dismembered, Bazzett’s poems can re-member us and piece together the ways in which we once thought we knew ourselves, creating a new,...
The third collection from the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize Winner (for You Must Remember This ) Since his debut, author’s profile has increased markedly, with poems from this collection featured in journals and magazines including the Boston Review, Pleiades, The Sun , and the Virginia Quarterly Review Along with publications, author’s network is also greatly enhanced, we expect stronger blurbs and more extensive review coverage for this title
