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This chapbook was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012, and is still available in limited supply. Please order from Amazon, Finishing Line Press, or directly from me.
some praise for the collection
“The title of Saba Syed Razvi’s Of the Divining and the Dead, draws us into the world of the daemon and the darkness, the reach of the “Bitter Tree”, reminiscent of Plath’s terrifying yew tree, rooted in oblivion. We see through the “peacock’s moon-skilled eye” and learn, with the poet, “the speech running under my skin”. This is a book filled with night-terrors, but lit by the powerful protective beams of this extraordinary poet’s dazzling imagination.”
— Carol Muske-Dukes, author of Twin Cities & Sparrow, former poet laureate of CA.
“Saba Syed Razvi’s poems are both lithe and electric, and the compelling imagination behind this work is capable of being both capacious in its perspective yet relentless in its investigations of experience. This chapbook is riveting from beginning to end.”
— David St. John, author of The Red Leaves of Night and The Face
This collection is a lyric tour-de-force, with its pliant sonic imagination, finely knotting sensory and visceral illuminations with the otherworldly; the poet is an acrobat, steady yet tenuously balanced, on the edge of a world, delivered like a pearl, from the clutch of the inarticulate. Long after we have read them, these poems, their uncanny landscapes and acts of shadowy divination, will haunt, undoing and remaking us.
— Susan McCabe, author of Swirl and Descartes’ Nightmare.
Saba Razvi’s Of the Divining and the Dead is timeless, sensual, and spiritually charged. Razvi’s words make haunting and riveting images come alive.
— Leah Maines, author of Beyond the River
reviews
Review by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens in TheThe Infoxicated Corner, November 3, 2014
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