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Earliest
Worlds
Reviews
Detroit Metro Times:
“Earliest Worlds flaunts a sexy insouciance and an uproarious inventiveness underscoring the whole textual fabric as if shot through with brilliant threads of daring and mischief.”
Publishers Weekly:
“Consistently wedding innovative technique with time-honored poetic tropes of light and dark, individual and cosmos, and self and other, this ambitious debut takes in a lot of influences, but emerges singularly and beautifully.”
Cimarron Review:
“The breadth of tone, diction and subject matter rivals in diversity that of Ezra Pound’s Cantos . . . Sikelianos never stumbles as she travels between infinite worlds.”
Rain Taxi Review of Books:
“Eleni Sikelianos’ Earliest Worlds is a debut that should not be underestimated; it is a work interested in and immersed in temporal flow, and thus a beginning that is of the moment.”
Splendid:
“The recently contested Olympics did not, alas, allow for a medal in the Linguistic Freestyle . . . a sport that award-winning poet Eleni Sikelianos could win with both adjectives tied behind her back.”
Jacket:
“Sikelianos attempts to untangle some complex knots in this book, and it is a testament to her writerly scope that she succeeds in doing so with wit and humor.”
Mental Contagion:
“A beautiful, wild book. These poems are full of wonder and scientific poise. . . . Addressing what’s most difficult and elusive about our experience, Eleni Sikelianos has made a beautiful and original poetry.”
Barbara Guest:
“With ferocity and imagination, Sikelianos takes apart the skeleton of ‘real life.’ She directs us, surprise in each line, to return to the unconscious, to the fierce, absolute sign, out of whose nourishing hand her poetry advances.”
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