"When I read Kerry Shawn Keys' work, I note immediately how much I
enjoy his phrasings, the unpredictable turns and twists of a line
where each new word comes as surprise, and yet all are deeply
satisfying when one re-reads them: "I knew Kathy Leonard in the
night-soiled, chiselled guilt" or "tonight, you will drown in the
unattended glossary of your dreams" or "ragged seams of coal share
the flute-like warble / of a high-C in her voice" or "If all
mornings could be like this whispered shower / of sunlight and
rain" - this gorgeous language that wants to stay in the mouth, one
wants to toss the line this way and that, in memory. That alone
would be more than enough, but Kerry Shawn Keys is also a master of
a set-up, of a scene, and his poems, such as "Tennessee Williams
Comes to Mulberry Street" can do within just a few stanzas what
other writers take hundreds of pages to invent and develop. Then -
yes, there is more! - there are absolutely hilarious, yet, true to
life, in all of its manifestations, pieces such as "Experience" or
"Dog" or "Springtime at the Edge of Paradise". But, by the end,
what I found myself marvelling most at was his extended epistle,
"From Celsus A Few Words", and his poignant, playful, and beautiful
prayer, "Octopus". Both poems are brilliant gems in their genres,
and any reader who opens the book on those pages will want to buy
it and share the work with others. It is that good". (Ilya
Kaminsky).
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