(for goodness' sake) - new poems by Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti

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Twilight Times Books, USA, & Alyscamps Press, Paris


(for goodness’ sake)

new poems by

Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti



On the cover, a woman’s exposed neck thrown back and lain bare before us: do we go for the jugular and slit her throat or do we offer a kiss and a caress?

Small wonder that in his introduction to Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti’s new book of poems entitled (for goodness’ sake), [adjective] Chris Madoch notes that Ranson’s latest book reads like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” meets “In Cold Blood.”

By turns both daring and delicate,a work of honesty and surrender, rendering the narrator and the reader exposed and vulnerable, Ranson-Polizzotti’s writing borders on the recklessly-honest. The choice she offers us--to kill or to consummate--is always front and center, and if we will not make it, the narrator is quite clear, she will make it for us.

As she writes in the poem *P.S.,

“I occupy this space now.
X. marks the spot.
The next move will be mine.”

The writing here touches on all of the senses and hits the high note, taking its cue from Yeats, reaching, yearning and beckoning to us with all the tastes and sounds and smells of the different seasons as we navigate our world and our lives. This is done spoken almost spoken in one giant mind-breath of prose-poetry reminiscent of Ginsberg with lyrical touches of John Ashbery and other New York School poet nods and more that intertwine like a partita in Ranson’s writing.

Still, like Capote, while Ranson has drawn on her influences, and her work is fully owned and occupied by her. But following in the footsteps of Holly Golightly, she is “sapling green”, as she notes, “I am growing.”


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