Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds

Amy Saul Zerby is a roller death derby of sharp and fast clarity ... [H]er poems convey a blast of sass and short punchy wonder.--Derrick Brown Our Poison Horse (Write Bloody Publishing)The smart alluring voice we encounter in Amy Saul-Zerbys Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds is by turns zany dark casual lyrical angry direct. I say voice because these poems are constantly addressing us implicating us as readers as they map a psychological pathway through love desire and pain always thrumming just beneath the surface. Its a sophisticated voice and entirely contemporary having learned as avidly from Confessionalism and the New York School as from social media. Its a voice that longs for enlargement and anonymity at the same time; Amy Saul-Zerbys poems themselves become places for hiding and places for being seen: i am everything that im not / when i am a poem in your hands. --Richie Hofmann Second EmpireAmy Saul-Zerby doesnt know what a cliché is. Her poems are strange new flowers bursting from all angles out of everything. --Bud Smith F-250