BOOKS
A father revealed as a spy, a child unmoored from normalcy — in Safe Houses I Have Known, poems ripple with the secrets that we keep from ourselves and each other.
Reviews
“Pairing formal poetic lines with conceptually driven fragments, Healey carves a space for innovation within received forms. By blending personal narrative and found language, he evokes, and reverses, the power dynamics implicit in surveillance.” -Publishers Weekly |
Playful but ominous, 10 Mississippi reads like a game of hide-and-seek set in America's rising floodwaters of text and technology.
Reviews
The Most Anticipated Books for the Rest of 2010, HuffPost “This book is seductive because, page by page, poem by poem, 10 Mississippi is cyclic and aswirl, is . . . as flowing and eddying as the river of the title.” -The Rumpus “Steve Healey is one of our most promising young poets, and this collection is full of circumambulations around the same topics, in a skillful takeoff from Gertrude Stein's poetics.” -HuffPost “A startlingly rich and absorbing read that also stakes a claim to big ideas, and does so using the sort of simple yet endlessly inventive metrics equally familiar to precocious children and the very best poets of our times. Highly recommended.” -HuffPost “With narrators like this, Healey does more than build his city on the Mississippi. He encourages us to build our own. -Gently Read Literature |
A debut collection of poems examining the pitfalls, pratfalls, and particular beauty of being an earthling.
Reviews
“The poems in earthling are written for the alienated among us; the imprisoned, the poor, the homeless, and the hopeless.” -Whistling Shade |
