Bøger af Cassidy McFadzean

The poems in Crying Dress, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean's third collection, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation, rhythm, competing sounds, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme, beat, and alliteration) while deploying puns, idiom, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii's modernist high rises in Toronto, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces, and the early days of sobriety and grief, Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological, while reaffirming the poet's sonic, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail.

The Conium Review: Vol. 10 includes new fiction from Lori Sambol Brody, Samuel Clark, Ted Hayden, Aimee Herman, Erica Kent, Kaleena Madruga, Lyndsie Manusos, and Cassidy McFadzean. A giant mirror hangs above a city and exposes private moments; two siblings mix and match pieces of their bodies; a lucky couple wins a vacation in a haunted castle. Lyric and surreal, these pieces traverse themes of intimacy, dependency, and isolation.This volume of The Conium Review includes "The Sky Saw Us," by Ted Hayden, winner of the 2021 Innovative Short Fiction Contest. The contest was judged by Elle Nash, author of Animals Eat Each Other and Nudes. Elle says "In ''The Sky Saw Us,'' all the loss of one''s life becomes stored inside the body, where one reflects on it forever."