The World That the Shooter Left Us, Cyrus Cassells’ (Incoming Writing Fellow 2023) newest collection of poems, was reviewed received in On the Seawall, a community gallery of new writing, art, and commentary.
“[Cassells’ poems] rage against injustice with both sustained fury and consummate craft. An agile imagination and sharpness of diction are propelled by a deft control of sound. The heightened pitch of his assertions is sustained by words that snarl, hiss, and spit… Cassells distills personal and collective grief into poems that force the reader to see terrible and heartbreaking sights… The World That the Shooter Left Us is a book of extraordinary intensity. The cumulative effect of these poems — with all their shocking insights, horrific betrayals, and devastating anguish — is invigorating rather than crushing. The power inherent in the syntax, sound composition, and imagery wrought by Cassells inspires resistance and reform.”Â
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