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Reviewed on September 15, 2013 | Arts and Humanities
Winner of the 2011 A Room of Her Own Foundation Prize, this debut collection nicely fulfills the John Waters epigraph: "Without obsession, life is nothing." Piazza frames her poems as offbeat phobias and philias—e.g., "Anablephobia: Fear of looking up" and "Basiphilia: Love of falling"—to investigate intensive emotional states. These phobias/philias typically track back to something more personal or interpersonal—"Lilapsophobia: Fear of tornado...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
