Daneen Wardrop’s poetry collection Cyclorama is, indeed, cycloramic in scope, expertly tackling, through searing dramatic monologues, both the traumas of the Civil War and the metaphysics of seeing. If the poem has traditionally been thought of as sister to the painting, Wardrop tries to expand these siblings’ domains by stretching them to cycloramic proportions that can contain the fraught narrative she chronicles. This is no small feat, and one she achieves with grace. This collection also comes to us at a time when we could all afford to take a multivalent look at the past and present of American violence. --Caroline Hagood, Kenyon Review, 2016

Daneen Wardrop is the author of seven books, including three collections of poetry: The Odds of Being, Cyclorama, and most recently Life as It, which received the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America.

a. A coin-shaped space 1 b. Every time I inhale 9 c. Fish-gleams we imagined carats 19 d. I am used to my desire 25 e. By a dollop of moonlight become 31 f. After falling in the canal from reaching 39 g. The translation that loops 51 h. The story’s latitude 59 i. Uncrumple more story 65 Notes 71