“At any time the zany can burst out of the customary, the past out of the present. . . . For McIntosh, surprise is discovery of selfhood. His poems step back from actuality and reconsider what’s familiar. . . . Poems depart from (and critique) reality, delight in fantasy and return, and this act of escape is empathetic transformation of what lies beyond ‘the real binding.’ He . . . emphasizes the importance of ‘something real’ among ‘hallucinations.’ The journey from the predictable to the new defines these nimble, gentle poems.”
—Frank Allen, American Book Review“With a surrealist’s touch, Sandy McIntosh wickedly maps out the psyche’s contradictions and movingly explores family pain and grief. His clean, swift poems strike the reader’s eye as well as heart as they rangle from hope to nightmare, from loss to social comedy.”
~Michael Heller.
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