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Angelflesh
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Poetry:
Firstborn
Kitty Through the Looking Glass
Pumpkin Girl
Angelflesh
Troll Poll
Ramblings at the End of the World
A Mosquito's Tale
Itchy
The Path
Pied Piper
Red Igloos
The Day After Halloween
Turn
Thorns
In a Dark Corner
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ProjectPulp.com Review
Many times when I read a horror poem,
it's apparent to me it was written simply because the author wanted
to pen something "dark." There is nothing of depth, feeling, or
reason.
This is not the case with the poems in
Angelflesh, a chapbook written by Christina Sng and
illustrated by Teri Santitoro.
This is Christina Sng's second
chapbook, and contains 12 reprints and 3 originals. As with the
majority of Sng's work, the poems are dark, but the range in which
they manage to be dark is extraordinary. She moves from humor to
thoughtfulness to terror in a few pages, bringing the reader along
to places that are uncomfortable, unknown, and, in the end, thrilling.
In "Angelflesh," the title poem of the
chapbook, Sng turns our expectations of good and evil on end, showing
us a world in which the prince of darkness stalks the heavens in a
disturbing account of his attack on an angel. After drawing us into a
dark and savage world, Sng provides us with "Troll Poll," the next
poem in the chapbook, and a quick, humorous narrative about selling
trolls. The poems are accompanied by Santitoro's illustrations, which
are quite suited to both the content and theme of the writing.
The entire chapbook follows this
pattern, reflecting on birth, death, the end of the world, childhood,
motherhood, and a multitude of other themes. In every poem, there is
something familiar to us, something that we innately know. But there
is also something else, something that we may or may not know, but
that we prefer not to think about. Because that is the dark side,
the side from which we hide and try not to remember. But Christina Sng
remembers for us, and she brings it to us in a darkly beautiful,
often disturbing, always thrilling way.
This chapbook, published by Sam's Dot
Publishing and nicely illustrated by Santitoro, would make a unique
and worthwhile addition to the library of anyone who enjoys horror,
poetry, or a thought-provoking read.
::Sarah Guidry::
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