Smaller Than Death (Full-Color Edition)For black & white edition, see createspace.com/5795597. Theodore Worozbyt's book Smaller Than Death won the 2015 Knut House Poetry Prize and features original artwork by painter Cheryl McClure. Image magazine compares Worozbyt to "a Zen archer, as skillful as he is serene. In language precise and apparently effortless, at once conversational and elegant, his poems offer meditative exercises that ebb and flow with an organic rhythm, by turns placid and stormy. Worozbyt is a master of mood. Line by line, stillness deepens, or a sense of threat builds. He writes of family, place, season, of lives lived between two cultures, and with an ear for the beauties manifest in the idiomatic rhythms of common speech. He possesses a keen, unsentimental sense of the past, documenting both its ugliness and its beauty with deftness and care. With respect to the dead, his poems sometimes approach magic realism in their literal sense of a world beyond-or you could call it faith." Theodore Worozbyt |
