Whispering Gallery

“Beautiful and hypnotic, subtle and shocking, Whispering Gallery is an instant classic. Dani Spinosa’s entrancing visual poems and vulnerable, insightful prose poetry will echo through you long after you read the last page.”—Helen Hajnoczky, author of Frost & Pollen

“An incredibly punk holler; all grief and anxiety and fury and exasperation, mind and body. Dani Spinosa ain’t keeping her voice down in this Whispering Gallery, she’s joined by a Greek chorus of semi-feral voices. Medea, Pasiphae, Cassandra, Hestia hold hands through the scary parts. Whispering Gallery is all pussy, all riot.”—Derek Beaulieu, author of Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century

“In the captivating space of her prose poems’ justified walls, Spinosa refigures the tragic heroines of Greek mythology. Her companion visual poems weave word and flesh in shades of black and red that recall a typewriter’s ribbon, bedecking and binding alike Glauke and Pasiphae, along with Alkmene, Thetis, and other foremothers. These poems do not hold captive, but rather encapsulate—offering protection while revealing the ways the gazes of gods and men disastrously hemmed them in. Nuanced and complex, the voices that whisper here resonate in new and profound ways, resisting any attempt to subsume their bodies by taking back their own tongues. This is a spellbinding book.”—Amaranth Borsuk, author of The Book