Review

I don't have any 'official' (i.e., solicited) reviews, but I do have an insightful email from an acquaintance who spent some time with the book. Here is an excerpt:

"So I've been digesting Fly Free for the last few days, though more each poem as a fragment. Each poem seems to protest when I seek to enlist it in a global interpretation of the work, but I can say what dimensions and themes hit me in these little jousts. You bear witness to as well as evoke a glimmer of transcendence - the possibility of redemption from fear, alienation, hubris, decay, and catastrophe. 'Glimmer' is essential, since you don't lurch into sentimentality or fantasy, even when you directly implore or call forth. That alienation and corruption - the operation of nihil - are foregrounded is what gives your hints force, i.e. makes them evocative. My favorite line in the book right now is from one of my favorite poems: we wake with hammers in our hands. Can't say precisely why, only that the line repeatedly hammered me. 'Hand-Binding' will stick w/me..." - J. M.