& cruel red

'There are always butterflies around death' and around the vivid poems of & cruel red language leaps with multi-layered pleasures. As the very first poem suggests 'you are tangled up', and indeed we are as we are lead to the threshold between chaos and order, pain and relief, burden and symphony. Deconstruction/ reproduction—Mary Kasimor navigates what lies between. All 'safety rolls away', bones are reshaped, the poems look for surprised freedoms and find them.—Diana Adams A curious and open mind, in love with the writing of and experimenting with language, is awake within the pages of Mary Kasimor’s new book, & cruel red. Nature and her creatures, the lives of saints, mythology immersed in the everyday reflect the presence of a poet whose subjects exist in all that life might offer.—Bobbi Lurie A seductive exploration of the individual—Mary Kasimor’s new book is innovative and energy packed.—William Allegrezza