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Praise for Eileen
Albrizio
about
Perennials
"Albrizio
delves into Brussels sprouts and fluffed pillows, peering past the
veneer of domesticity into the cauldron of secrets that seethes
underneath. Evolving morality and the diminishment of mortality are
explored here with clarity of perception; and a poem like “The Thinning
of Filomena” with its rigorous formal structure, unsentimental outlook,
and grace of motion transcends its kin to create a lasting, memorable
effect on the mind of reader."
—
Ravi Shankar,
Poet-in-Residence at CCSU
Editor of Drunken Boat
Author of Instrumentality, finalist for the 2005
Connecticut Book Awards
about RAIN: Dark as Water in Winter
"The
energy one discovers in Eileen Albrizio's new collect is restless and
dynamic, a shape-shifting power the poet harnesses with panache. For
Abrizio clearly understands, at a profound level, the relationship
between content and form. To say that Albrizio is versatile understates
the case: here one finds work in the sonnet, villanelle, pantoum and
kyrielle forms, among others, not to mention meters from the ballad
measure to terza rima. Poems driven by memory and by imagination reveal
the discerning mind of a writer engaged and mesmerized by the great
panoply of the human."
— Gray Jacobik
about Messy on the Inside
"Eileen Albrizio
explores deep, dark places where raw emotion boils and swirls,
threatening to overwhelm both poet and reader. Fortunately for
everyone's sanity, Albrizio imposes order through her use of formal
structure, achieving a delicate balance between austere decorum and
let-it-all hang-out rant. Albrizio eloquently demonstrates that the most
rigid form cannot stifle honest passion. She writes of ancient anguish,
today's torment, impending iniquity in both classical and modern form
and meter. The reader senses that Albrizio will conquer her own pain by
creating an accessible poetic style."
— Priscilla Herrington
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Eileen Albrizio |
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| This is a
writer of poetry and prose whose works have appeared in
numerous publications across the Northeast. Perennials
marks her fourth collection of poetry. Her previous
books include Messy on the Inside and Rain - Dark as
Water in Winter, both published by Ye Olde Font Shoppe
Press. In 2003, she produced On the Edge, a recitation
of poems on CD. Additionally, she has penned several
plays, two novels and is now working on a compilation of
fictional short stories. She’s earned a BFA in Theatre
from Central Connecticut State University where she is
currently finishing her graduate thesis project towards
an MA in English. In 2005, Eileen left a twelve-year
award-winning career as a radio news host and broadcast
journalist to pursue a life of writing and teaching. She
was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the
Greater Hartford Arts Council in 2003 and again in 2008.
She has taught creative writing in several colleges and
cultural institutions as well as the York Correctional
Institute, Connecticut’s only maximum security prison
for women. For nearly two decades, Eileen and her
husband, Wayne Horgan, have co-owned Heroes & Hitters, a
comic book store in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. The two
live in Central Connecticut with their cats, Buddy and
Trouble. |
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