Monozygotic | Codependent

by Stephanie Bryant Anderson

Stephanie Bryant Anderson’s Monozygotic | Codependent is magically populated with fawn and doe, mirror-girls, and filled to the brim with feathers. Throughout the book objects and ideas change—locks of hair, locks of doors, dead birds, cartographers, and clouds of vulture wings all become something else. The poet has power here, whether she realizes it or not, and this is the ultimate assertion of the book. Bryant Anderson states, “I’ve dreamt a horse into the field, or the horse/ in my dream came to save me—no hollow /knight—but the horse, and I climbed onto his back/ to keep from suffocating.” The poet, the twin birthed from a single egg, dreams the world into being, splitting and recreating and challenging the reader’s experience of reality. It’s a beautiful journey.

—Andrea Spofford, author of The Pine Effect

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Sandy olson Olson · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a brilliant, and beautifully done book.. way beyond, and surpasses impressed.

[Angel Lederhause · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had the privilege of winning this book on goodreads. It was beautiful.

[Marlena · Rating 5 out of 5]

I adore this book. It is very short and can be read in an hour or two. Anyway, what I mostly loved about the poems was the raw emotions that were sipping through them. One of the poems, 'Jake's funeral' is a beautiful and heartbreaking dedication to a loved one who died and it really moved me.
The author is not afraid to go deep into the dark pit of her soul, to play with dangerous, self-destructive thoughts, an attempt that makes this book truly frightening.