Like a siren's sultry song haunts the sailor, a mysterious woman floats in and out of the speaker's life. Trozzolo takes us on a poetic journey through a salacious love affair that has such a hold on him that he still sees her everywhere. Every bar. Every blonde. The poems deftly echo the brief, dangerous moments the two lovers shared. Reader's will certainly feel the urge to follow, as a distant but familiar pulse beckons you to the end. -Shawn Aveningo Sanders, author of What She Was Wearing In equal measures sly and sincere, impenitent and indulgent, UN/Reconciled revisits a love affair that haunts the speaker's life. This paean to passion will charm with bitter-sweet delight. -Marcela Sulak, author of City of Skypapers and Mouth Full of Seeds
With an aching decades-long story UN/Reconciled takes us to a place that may terrify some-the place where passion and longing live unsettled, with no guilt in their pleasure...and perhaps no way out. By sea, air and radio waves, we are transported to untold romantic delights, and to the precipice of unfathomable regret. -Becky Blades, author of Do Your Laundry Or Die Alone and Start More Than You Can Finish
UN/Reconciled is a journey to the center of that most complex human experience: romantic love. With wit and clarity, the speaker asks us to remember that our lives are brief and our connections with one another matter. This speaker investigates the ways in which love can shape and haunt us long after a relationship has run its course. -Caroline Goodwin, author of Madrigals and Old Snow, White Sun
Trozzolo's chapbook is a series of small, haunting poems, large with memory and ache. The poems begin with an epigraph-careful insight into each moment and an unraveling of a story of love never forgotten. He writes, Ironic, your favorite word to misuse / finally fits-a perfect description of / how you loved me but didn't. Trozzolo gives us poems that remind us how much we have loved and how that love never leaves us. -Trish Hopkinson, author of Footnote and Almost Famous
