Packs Small Plays Big: 124 (VIA Folios)

Poetry. Art. In PACKS SMALL PLAYS BIG Phyllis Capello gives us exquisite finely-crafted lyrical poems polished and many-faceted as the finest jewels. These poems contain a womans voice crying out from tenement windows and city streets. They both grieve for all that is lost to the passage of time and celebrate all that remains.--Maria Mazziotti GillanPACKS SMALL PLAYS BIG packs a punch to the gut. Whether its a feminist reclamation of myth and fable an activists prophetic cries of injustice or the elusive compression of an attuned lyric poet Capello offers measured solace and rousing intensity. Where else but with this poets magic can bewitched urban landscapes of alarm jangles and jabbering pizzicato transform into redemptive homemade shrines--notwithstanding the patched potholes and pedestrian plod. The poems spark and hum and the emotion catches our throats.--Peter CovinoAn exquisite redefinition of Time. The poets meditation brings ancient sensibility to the urban landscape Delos to the steel horizon Athena to Avenue X. Through stars dreams shoelaces women on the brink keening in tune with sirens gears brakes the lurch of subways overhead Capello burnishes an eternal lemniscate brimmed with passion.--Annie Rachele Lanzillotto