Chimeric Machines

This collection from rising author Lucy A. Snyder offers three dozen poems to delight readers who enjoy sly wordplay and subtle allusion, high intelligence and fierce heart.Snyder's work is complex yet grounded. You can read it on several levels and it'll work on each and every one. It's lyrical but rooted in authenticity and validity. There's truth here, and tackling the truth is the highest calling of any poet.She's been through the trenches; she knows the way the world comes down. You can feel it in the work. You're not just looking at words in a book, you're regarding a life that's been opened up and splashed down on the page. This lady is not only courageous, she's fearless. We need more like her to give us that grand plucking of the guts. - Tom Piccirilli, author of The Midnight Road and Waiting My Turn to Go Under the Knife, from his introductionThere is nothing illusory or mechanical about these poems. They take us on a marvelously eclectic journey, with a cast that includes a black hole voicing its thoughts and a dead man coming 'Home For the Holidays.' Read and be dazzled. - Christopher Conlon, author of Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt and Midnight on Mourn StreetWinner of the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry.