Low Parish

by Steven Leyva

“Low Parish is an ambitious debut of a voice that’s passionate and tough, honest and intimate, bookish but without unnecessary irony. This voice pursues its losses and desires in urgent muscular rhythms and ceaseless syntactical staccatos. Paying its tribute to real and mythological places, Steven Leyva’s poetry runs along the bloodlines of fatherhood and brotherhood, forming a beautiful, deeply felt collection.”

–Valzhyna Mort

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published May 5, 2012

Reviews

[Gerry LaFemina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Steven Leyva's first book of poems suffers from what many first books suffer from--a complacency of image sometimes, an overreaching of a metaphor, a failure to push further. But there's so much promise in these poems, so much raw talent, and so much heart, the book is a joy to read as much for the books most successful poems as for its hint as to what will come next.