Hard Candy / Pitch Roll Yaw is a flip book of two poetry collections facing each other. It reads like a bare knuckle punch from beyond the grave. Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light offers poems and prose on the eternal relationship of the poet and her mother. Pitch Roll Yaw is fourteen stations each beginning with a See, Saw poem -- Lanzillotto's one liners balanced by a fulcrum: comma, caesura, spondee, dash, or backslash, with quick shifts in weight and changes in meaning. Each station is unified by theme or form.
I almost remember / conversations we had / the rush of voice / loud break of your laughter / your willingness to extend the evening / to its max, but the words / the words don't fly back to me / The words are gone, black specks in the sky / on rooftops, gables, branches / quivering
The[se] poems explode across the page.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Every inhale, every exhale. For motherdaughter. For daughtermother.
Paola Corso
A full-on joy to read.
Celeste Guzmán Mendoza
A love song to Annie’s beloved mother.
Karen Tintori
Pitch Roll Yaw is rich soul raw. Prepare for liftoff!
Urayoán Noel
[H]ope amidst illness, lust, abandoned love, and an unsolvable longing for a lost and gritty New York.
Steve Zeitlin