Leap Year

C.L. Bledsoe's savage hallucinatory and ironic third chapbook - Leap Year by Red Ceilings Press - opens a window into the mind of the insane. Taken as a whole which is clearly the intent - each of the 29 poems is titled with the date as if the book is a journal written in February of a leap year ¬- the book reveals day-to-day life in a mental institution blending black humor with the isolation and humiliation of an imaginative wry speaker. Leap Year is an ambitious book yet Bledsoe pulls it off with a masterful performance. It's utterly unforgettable.: -Elizabeth Swann Prick of the Spindle