POENA DAMNI TRILOGY
The Cleaver Magazine
Published: Dec 2015
Location: Philadelphia USA
Reviewed by: Justin Goodman
Review of books:
THE FIRST DEATH,
WITH THE PEOPLE FROM THE BRIDGE,
Z213: EXIT
Lyacos writes one of the most memorable traditionally experimental poetry collections I’ve read. It avoids the visual wankery of bill bissett, the gentle chopping of line typical in Jorie Graham, and the terse verse of Rae Armantrout, while retaining the weightiness of surreal abstraction... A guttural experience which is rarely experienced and which is what Poena Damni wants to be from the beginning.