A prize wheel, for all its amusement and attraction, relies on chance and offers small wins against losing odds. In her debut poetry collection, Colleen Michaels skillfully and vividly examines the joy, consolation, luck, and con always in play when she heeds the call to "step right up" in matters of work, family, illness, and intimacy. A winning collection filled with risk and reward, Prize Wheel imagines a world where "...it should matter/the belonging of one/to the other."
Colleen Michaels' poems are part memoir, part magic. In this world of games of chance, carnival rides, family amusements, is a speaker who is always watching for the magical and unexpected. The collection is connected via this thread of the extraordinary in our seemingly ordinary lives. A beautiful debut collection that lives up to its colorful and quirky cover art.