Review by Lois Glenn (http://tinyurl.com/2p249l)On rare occasions a poetry collection comes along that is so totally reflective and enlightening that, when you reluctantly arrive at the end, your first inclination is to simply start again at the beginning. Not only is Wonder such a collection but it is an invitation to sit close and listen even more closely as Nicole Pollifrone deftly uses few words to express raw emotion.
In our small world of heavy population there are countless souls crying out everyday in an attempt to connect to someone, anyone, who may feel as they do, experience what they have experienced, through the darkness and the light. Pollifrone does well in letting us know we are not truly alone.
Wonder is beyond doubt a timeless ‘message in a bottle’ cast out to anyone willing to discover they are not alone. This is precisely a book to give a friend. It’s a book to keep and to share, to savor and to digest, to begin and ... to begin again.
Review by Rose Atiyeh
A friend sent me a copy of your collection of poems.
On the back, it says that “I hope that at least some of the people who read my poerty can recognize that they are not alone.”
To this, I respond:
Thank you. You echo my heart. Impact, Prism, Should’ve... They speak of me, and I am not alone. Nor are you.
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Some of the poems are very sweet and uplifting, others reflect the harsh realities of life. I think my favorite is “Should’ve.” Its final line says it all: “I should’ve danced.” Nicole celebrates life in all its variety, in its beauty and its ugliness, in its starkness, in its mystery. And in many ways she echoes the way I feel, the way I think, the way I react. In all, she has mirrored my soul back to me, and I have learned to know myself better.
Thanks.
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