Parable of Hide and Seek

the long version

“The poems in Parable of Hide and Seek… unveil secret worlds, ecstatically reinventing archetypes for the American landscape.” —<em>BeLight</em> “Sweeney’s poems reveal that language is parable, from the sound of a breath shaped by a mouth, to words artfully arranged on the page: there is much hidden, there is much below the surface, there is much to be discovered—” —Sally Ashton, <em>Poetry Flash</em> “[Sweeney] knows the poet’s job, and it shows…” —<em>Galatea Resurrects</em> “Sweeney employs careful and lush images informed by his natural surrealist bent…Like a good parable, the poems seem to nearly deliver a message. Like a dysfunctional parable, they also meander through a world of smells like a distracted dog.” —<em>The Great American Pinup</em>