SPY POEM: REVIEWS

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from PJ Gallo in COLDFRONT 

Samuel Amadon’s latest chapbook, Spy Poem, exudes a quality of overhearing.  Its jarring, syllabic headspace, informed by observations that are mightily susceptible to interruption and misinterpretation, impresses both the elusive hum of a single conversation in a noisy room and the open quiet that characterizes an erasure.  Such is the smartly executed oxymoron of Spy Poem: to communicate clearly the unclear.

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