Perennial writer and reviewer rob mclennan has deemed MA|DE‘s debut full-length collection, ZZOO, “layered, and sharp,” full of “smart and engaged language.” Our thanks to rob for his kind reflections on our work.
“There is a bounce and clatter, but one of a density of lyric, one that works to interrogate relations and interrelations, offering a collaborative language between and across language, sparking a binary through a binary, and where they might possibly connect. The poems are layered, and sharp …”
Writing for the wonderful print journal The Ampersand Review, Matt Boylan offers the very first long-form review of MA|DE‘s debut full-length poetry collection, ZZOO! Taking its place alongside a majestic array of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, interviews and other reviews in this beautifully curated issue, Boylan offers a deep and insightful examination of our book. As Boylan writes:
“Most impressive throughout ZZOOis MA|DE’s extraordinary attention to detail, and their almost bibliophilic attention to the composition of each poem. Close readers will feel the heart imbued within the writing, the passion behind the work’s creation, and the genuine, contagious belief in the message. It seems that we live in a culture that is increasingly removing itself from natural experience, and ZZOOis a refreshing step back, away from—or perhaps across—the divide. It is fresh, authentic, genuine, and a truly deep piece of work that warrants attention and admiration; it fences in a small but powerful world that poetry lovers will want to revisit again and again to observe language on display in an artful facsimile of its natural habitat.”
