A shout-out in Lantern Review's latest blog post, "APIA Poetry Collections to Carry with You into 2017."
Review of Power Made Us Swoon in Drunken Boat
"Dragon Memories Like Stones: Documenting Self and Nation in Power Made Us Swoon" by Lynley(Shimat) Lys.
The Palace is reviewed by NewPages
Thank you, NewPages and Theresé Samson Wenham for posting a review of The Palace of Contemplating Departure. "In her debut collection, Brynn Saito carries uncertainties and measures them out against the known and the unknown. Saito finds an enthralling voice for complex emotions about race, war, identity, scars, ghosts, family, and suffering." Read on at NewPages.
A new review, by Tyler Mills
Thank you, Tyler Mills and The Collagist, for a new review of The Palace of Contemplating Departure. "The voices in this collection will stay in your head; they are voices that refuse what is easy for what is real, and they create beauty out of illusion—as devastating, and necessary, as that illusion is." Read the full review here.
A new review in HINGED: Journal of Converging Arts
Garrett Bryant reviews The Palace of Contemplating Departure in HINGED. "Ultimately Saito leaves the reader with the tools to overcome the hardships of love and loss. Her tenacious voice and emotionally charged words give the reader grounding for our own troubles. She teaches the reader to have the courage and strength to move on." Read on.
Review of "The Palace" in TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics
"At times transparent and vulnerable, at others, sinuous with history and the breath of the supernatural, the heart of Brynn Saito’s first full-length collection beats dangerously, exhilaratingly, close to the surface." Continuing reading Iris Law's review of The Palace of Contemplating Departure, published today in TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics.