Sundry Abductions

The poems are "funny, sophisticated, exacting while sometimes surreal, and an astonishing joy to read." Sundry Abductions is a book full of "surprises that reveal truths one couldn't have guessed, matching intelligence with beauty that is not easily achieved." Readers will find narrative and lyric poems here, both "spare and theological," "dangerous and witty." Maria Dylan Himmelman's poems have appeared in Guesthouse, Plume, Image Journal, Iterant, and New Ohio Review, among other journals.   Maria Dylan Himmelman's Sundry Abductions is winner of inaugural Hanging Loose Press Founders Prize. Her poems have appeared in Guesthouse, Plume, Image Journal, Iterant, and New Ohio Review, among other journals. She and her husband divide their time between Los Angeles and the Hudson Valley.   "We each have our own way into the lands beyond death, but it strikes me, reading these poems, that sometimes we can share our paths, or discover a footing from observing the path of another. Maria Dylan Himmelman's poems occupy a borderland, standing at the edge of the quotidian and looking out over other realms—a homely and sometimes comforting surrealism floats her words into forms capable of being witnessed. Throughout, the music of Dylan Himmelman's language enriches the view." - Kyla Houbolt