Bialosky, Jill

Precise language, deft metaphors, and emotional undertones keep audiences invested and sometimes enthralled. Recommended for most collections.

Bialosky's attention to detail and love of language serve the reader well. This is a book to savor. [See Prepub Alert, 12/19/16.]

Although several poems could be loosely considered sonnets, the collection contains mostly free verse poems composed from bits of conversation and enhanced by line breaks. Beginning in the middle of the action, the best poems move quickly to a point of resonance and stop at a near pitch-perfect ending.