Revenge for Revenge by Christie Ann Reynolds
Revenge for Revenge by Christie Ann Reynolds, graduate, the MFA in Creative Writing at The New School.
Coconut Books, 2013
“The apparent velocity of Reynolds’s poetry, the physical charges directed into her materials, and the emphatic but relatively spare diction are always believable. Even, or maybe especially, when filtered through what turn out to be surprisingly flexible thematic terms such as revenge and mirage. That elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else’s way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities, is realized, for me, in the way the poems handle intimate immediacy: through a willful, concise, and thoughtfully layered balance of plea and affect.” —Anselm Berrigan