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Disturbed
$8.00
Ships in an Average of 1.1 Mailing Days
Artwork:
Teri Santitoro
Janis Marshall
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ProjectPulp.com Review
Disturbed by Julie Shiel is an aptly named
chapbook. The eleven original and four reprinted poems collected in the book are tied together
by a theme of madness. We see secret madnesses, madnesses of love, of anger, of passion,
and of despair. The poems are dark, sometimes violent, and always disturbing.
In "Room 3A", Shiel takes the reader into the mind of an asylum patient, giving us a taste of
how it must feel sitting in a white room while universes "leak and drip" from a maddened soul.
"Victim #6" and "The Stalker" draw the reader unwillingly into the minds of passion-criminals,
while "Found" shows us the floating body of a deceased victim. Shiel drags the reader violently
through psych wards, suicides, murder scenes, and a myriad of places that may exist only in
the minds of her characters. The end result is dark, rough, and shocking.
The poems are accompanied by illustrations by Teri Santitoro and Janis Marshall. The
illustrations, like the poems, are dark (and perhaps a bit provocative), and are well matched with
their subject matter.
Published by Sam's Dot Publishing, Disturbed makes a good addition to their illustrated
poetry line. Certainly not for everyone, Disturbed offers a startling look into the depths of
madness for those brave enough to venture in.
::Sarah Guidry::
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