“The
trick in The Other Side of Crazy seems to be that it’s a place we
cannot access, or perhaps does not exist. These poems are filled with
startling images, both strange and commonplace: blood-soaked quilts, burning
watches, calendars, thunderstorms, dead skin, pharmaceutical commercials, a bike
ride across the emotional terrain of modern life. These poems are littered with
interruptions—both internal & external—that are always biting at the heels
at this contemporary normalcy & domesticity, and in the end, rather than
being resisted or fretted upon or allowed to hold modern life hostage, they are
embraced & incorporated into the living and crazy love these poems so
deftly reflect.” ~ Ryan Collins
“In The
Other Side of Crazy, Jodie Toohey explores the frailty of
relationships and modern life from her own unique perspective. She guides the
reader ‘Through the valley/Of vulnerability/…Of agony over/Straits/Of jackets
and jars.’ Her poems beat with palpable emotion, fearless and honest, evoking a
rich, multi-layered world.” ~ Nancy Ann Schaefer, InSearch of Lode
"In
her book, The Other Side of Crazy,
poet Jodie Toohey proves to us that still waters do indeed run deep. Her
poetry collection proffers a brilliant disturbance of the intellectual mind
that reassembles as creative genius.The poet conjures everyday moments of
insanity in her work that gift us sanity, and that join all of us in a very
human, very creative, coven of mad genius. These poems are like rare, black
pearls, simple, beautiful, darkly iridescent, and a little sinister. The
Reader wears them in her heart and mind like a badge made of rare jewels that
entitles her to a tour through The Other Side of Crazy with poet Toohey as the
tour guide." ~ Ellen Tsagaris,Sappho,I should have listened
"Poet,
author Jodie Toohey exhibits her diverse and creative poetic voice in The
Other Side of Crazy. Her poems elicit raw emotions and draw
the reader to think about life from a different angle, from the other side of
the proverbial box." ~ Trisha Georgiou, Quartered
Enlightenment
To read some samples, click here.
To craziness!
-The Wordsy Woman
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