Chimeric Machines by Lucy A. Snyder

Paperback. New. Paperback. 95 pages. This collection from rising author Lucy A. Snyder (Spellbent, Installing Linux on a Dead Badger) offers three dozen poems to delight readers who enjoy sly wordplay and subtle allusion, high intelligence and fierce heart. Snyders work is complex yet grounded. You can read it on several levels and itll work on each and every one. Its lyrical but rooted in authenticity and validity. Theres truth here, and tackling the truth is the highest calling of any poet. Shes been through the trenches; she knows the way the world comes down. You can feel it in the work. Youre not just looking at words in a book, youre regarding a life thats been opened up and splashed down on the page. This lady is not only courageous, shes fearless. We need more like her to give us that grand plucking of the guts. - Tom Piccirilli, author of The Midnight Road and Waiting My Turn to Go Under the Knife, from his introduction There is nothing illusory or mechanical about these poems. They take us on a marvelously eclectic journey, with a cast that includes a black hole voicing its thoughts and a dead man coming Home For the Holidays. Read and be dazzled. - Christopher Conlon, author of Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt and Midnight on Mourn Street This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN.