Sky the Oar

<p>As Fady Joudah states in his praise for Stacy R. Nigliazzo “[The] many arresting poems in <em>Sky the Oar </em>row us through many life and death narratives through the medical gaze: American in their specificity universal in their compassion.” These brief lyric poems by emergency room nurse Nigliazzo strip story down to the essential words speaking volumes in less than a breath. In three erasure poems she tells the story of a friend’s murder in words buried within a news article. Kevin Prufer adds “Stacy R. Nigliazzo writes of sickness pain love and beauty with enormous precision and skill. The result is one of the most moving poetry books I have read in years.”</p>