Bloodstream Is An Illusion Of Rubies Counting Fireplaces
Peter Dellolio offers up a new poetry book filled with mostly shorter free verse poems and a few longer poems, too. Oftentimes, commentary is made on the poet who writes a short form poem as if it is not as relevant as a much longer three page epistle poem, for example.
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100 Poems
by Peter J. Dellolio
Copyright 2023, Cyberwit
- Publisher : Cyberwit.net (February 18, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 111 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9395224819
- ISBN-13 : 978-9395224819
- Item Weight : 5.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.28 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,805,613 in Books
Reviewed by LB Sedlacek
Peter Dellolio offers up a new poetry book filled with mostly shorter free verse poems and a few longer poems, too. Oftentimes, commentary is made on the poet who writes a short form poem as if it is not as relevant as a much longer three page epistle poem, for example. But what one can say in brevity speaks to one’s gift as a writer or i.e. less can be more. I always say, when writing my own poems, that the poem itself speaks to the length that it ends up being (and perhaps how often you wish to revise it has something to do with that the final length). In this book, the short poems work well with one another, each one defining and blending nicely from page to page.
Dellolio starts off his new collection with a poem written with one word per line except for one line near the end. The poem is called “Blurry Sketches.” In this poem, it appears to be about a sketch that possibly comes to life. The jolting insertion of a longer line amongst the one word lines is jarring but also welcoming because it’s different, it gives room to pause, sparks the mind to think, and is genuinely a good poem to read.
He continues this re-working or rather personalization of form with the next poems after “Blurry Sketches” as with most of the poetry in the entire book. It is as if he’s reassembled his poems to fit the senses or sense he’s trying to create within his collection’s entirety.
From the poem “MAYBE THE DISARRANGED NEWSPAPER”:
“Maybe the disarranged newspaper
was waiting
for a little boy
to shape
it into a pirate hat”
Dellolio’s poems are entertaining and revealing. He brings us into his imagination and unfolds the poem line by line.
Subjects range from music to nature, to animals and seasons, and more. There’s a deliberate boldness to his creativity illustrated in these poems.
Each poem seems to have something else rippling underneath the surface to discover. There is much to contemplate within each line.
Dellolio’s explorations within these poems are clear and visionary. He takes ahold of each word and fills it with wonder, purpose, curiosity and so much more. The magnificence within these pages overflows with an original voice. Dellolio is indeed a magical poet.
~LB Sedlacek is the author of several books of poetry including “Swim,” “Night Swim,” “The Poet Next Door,” “Simultaneous Submissions,” and “Words and Bones.” Her most recent short stories collections include “Motor Addiction & The Renovator” and “The Jackalope Committee & Other Short Stories.”