Amanda Lamarches debut collection of poetry is a work of
imaginative grace and power. These poems topple the normal
hierarchy of everyday concerns, promoting fears unlikely in the
normal state of being -- the fear of buttons, of dying to the wrong
song, of houses built on corners -- to the same stage and emotional
impact as the more common (perhaps more cliched) fears of car
crashes and collapsing bridges. The clever combination of
explorations emotional and playful carries on. Technical advice for
cutting down trees is juxtaposed with the development of ominous
personal overtones. The title sequence takes issue with the easy
laying down of language by recasting well-worn sayings: giving them
back-stories, situating them in real time and real places, and
reinvigorating them by providing each its own individual universe
from which to draw meaning. Amanda Lamarches refreshing poems
refuse at all the right moments to take themselves too seriously.
They have the amazing ability to make readers shift from out-loud
laughter to profound insight in a gasp of breath.
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