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Review title: stunning, relevant and addictive
Product review: CHURCH (the book, like the physical structure of a church) is haunted by ghosts, but also very much of this world. It is almost impossible to put down. The poems leap off the page, as if the speaker ("Here I am, captured, in my black & white phase"-- speaking, in this case of a photograph) haunted the physical pages of the book. Nazarene brilliantly accomplishes this through the dramatic (never melodramatic) staging of the poem on the page, complete with italics, boldface type, jagged lines, etc., but there is nothing unearned here-- as Nazarene says in another published poem (not in this collection): "No false moves." While loss is a common thread, and despair never far off, these are deeply religious poems (irreverently so, as in the work of Franz Wright), full of risk and beauty. The physical book itself is lovely to look at, with its (also haunting) cover art by Anna R. Treborze.
