Ceilings, by Jeffrey S. Callico. Poetry. Reviewed By Lynn Alexander.
Ceilings is not at all what I expected from Jeff Callico, but there it is: simple language, clear, cool, basic. They sit there, these short lines on these open white pages. You are alone with the poems.
I am familiar with a lot of Jeff Callico’s short fiction at this point, he has a certain way of presenting language, and he is not one to embellish. He has a style that is recognizable to me now, made up of linking certain lines, his repetition, this strange deconstruction of his observations of behaviors, reducing things down.To what? To their basic elements. Continue reading
