"By Reason of Breakings," Andrew Zawacki's first book of poetry,
overwhelms and silences by virtue of its extremely austere beauty.
In highly wrought lyrics, prose poems, fragments of apocrypha, and
splintered efforts at song, this volume is forceful and haunted by
doubt. Each intimate and restrained line is a glimpse at a wisdom
that defies paraphrase, each image carefully chosen and
constructed. Zawacki's language summons and invites and is almost
menacing in its delicate intensity: "Weight is the syntax of
filling empty spaces: scalpels and expired tissue fall, but fire
rises to fever and sere." While pursuing an explanation for the
disappearance of God and for the denouement of a love affair, and
exploring the failure of language to compensate or console, these
poems maintain their sublime power and elegance.
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