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Gorgeous Blurbs From Amazing Authors:
“Sophia Falco’s poems are luminous, rich paths of acceptance. Generous in their attention to detail, they are transformative in their celebrations of the local, the neighbor, the details that make each person unique.”
—Juliana Spahr, author of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs
“Chronicles of Cosmic Chaos: In The Fourth Dimension continues Sophia Falco’s poetic and psychic-spiritual quest to represent, figure forth, and express altered states of affect and moods of embodied-disembodied being. She goes on crossing slings and arrows of “cosmic chaos” as entrance into trances, tropes, and traces of a “fourth dimension.” In this her third book, the forms have become more compressed, adjudications of meaning more secure as line, stanza, form. Sophia is on a poetic journey and takes the reader into the sacred heart of bipolar transformation and migration: herein younger self, future self, and present self collide and collude into a plot of survivance, radiance, love, and life wisdom.”
—Rob Sean Wilson, author of When the Nikita Moon Rose and Waking in Seoul
“Sophia’s poems are wonderfully specific and personal. They contain unexpected details that color a solitary moment or spark a memory. From this, themes of love and suffering, connection and impermanence emerge. It’s a beautiful collection.”
—Maya Highland, Editor of The Closed Eye Open
“Within the “Chaos,” control and contradiction define Sophia Falco’s newest volume of poems. This mature work showcases her deliberate craft as she coaxes memories and impressions into poetic form, allowing each emotion to dictate shape and style, affirming, “yes, a method / to this madness” in a “World Backwards.” This surprising variety captures and mimics the complexity of our thoughts and the intimate relationships that are at the heart of this work–the expectations, longing, disappointments, and reverence–the very pulse of humanity in all of its delight and pain. On full display is her characteristic marriage of opposites. Childlike fantasy colors the grips of despair. Hope refuses to be drowned. And as we enter the fourth dimension with her, time is suspended, allowing us to hold up and examine more than one “blue green marble” that is “more than just a marble” and see “that light exists.”
—Allison Herman, Professor of English at Foothill College
“The poems in Chronicles of Cosmic Chaos are deeply contemplative. They reach back into memory to reveal a fleeting image, simple yet profound, or perhaps a quiet gesture, a shared moment of joy or grief.”
—Aaron Lelito, Editor in Chief of Wild Roof Journal
“Grab ahold of Sophia’s hand as she leads you into the fourth dimension; a place filled with heartache, contrast, darkness, and light. Falco’s heartfelt poetry will spin you into a stunning expanse of comic chaos.”
—Tiny Seed Literary Journal