Shelia Squillante’s debut collection Beautiful Nerve surveys the divergent, yet paradoxically symbiotic relationship of opposing forces—body and mind, fiction and reality, what is whole and what is divide, the strange and the familiar. The nerve is both a source of vivacity and despondency. · In these stunning poems filled with the weight and hungers of milk, honey, and sensuous blood-pulse, Sheila Squillante deftly slips between exterior and interior spaces of embodiment and intellect, quotidian and sublime, dream and wakefulness. With a painterly eye and an impeccable ear for linguistic sound and phrasing, the keenly-thrumming poems in Beautiful Nerve will rivet you with their /5. · This year, Tiny Hardcore Press released Beautiful Nerve, a poetry collection by Sheila Squillante. The author of three chapbooks —In This Dream of My Father, Women Who Pawn Their Jewelry, and A Woman Traces the Shoreline— Squillante has an M.F.A. in poetry from Penn State and currently works at Chatham University as assistant professor of English and as associate director of .
Sheila Squillante is the author of the poetry collection, Beautiful Nerve (Civil Coping Mechanisms, ), and three chapbooks of poetry. Recent work has appeared in places like Copper Nickel, North Dakota Quarterly, Indiana Review, Waxwing, Menacing Hedge and River Teeth. Sheila Squillante is the author of the poetry collections, Mostly Human, winner of the Wicked Woman Book Prize from BrickHouse Books, and Beautiful Nerve, as well as three chapbooks of poetry: In This Dream of My Father, Women Who Pawn Their Jewelry, and A Woman Traces the Shoreline. She is also co-author, along with Sandra L. Faulkner, of. Sheila Squillante is the author of the poetry collection, Beautiful Nerve (Civil Coping Mechanisms, ), and three chapbooks of poetry: In This Dream of My Father (Seven Kitchens, ), Women Who Pawn Their Jewelry (Finishing Line, ) and A Woman Traces the Shoreline (Dancing Girl, ).
The poems in Sheila Squillante’s debut collection, Beautiful Nerve, are meant to unsettle. They draw on our anxieties and fears—somatic, linguistic, metaphoric—leading us somewhere somehow calming in its familiarity but troublingly unsteady: a bridge that ends abruptly as you cross it, the doomed deck of a haunted ship, a three-cornered room, the cutlery drawer, a table where you lie still beneath the surgeon’s knife. This year, Tiny Hardcore Press released Beautiful Nerve, a poetry collection by Sheila Squillante. The author of three chapbooks —In This Dream of My Father, Women Who Pawn Their Jewelry, and A Woman Traces the Shoreline— Squillante has an M.F.A. in poetry from Penn State and currently works at Chatham University as assistant professor of English and as associate director of the M.F.A. programs in creative writing. Beautiful Nerve. Named one of “The 14 Best Poetry Debuts of the Last 5 Years” by Bustle. “All cut myelin and beckoning horizons, these poems radiate through you.”. – Goodreads reviewer. The poems in Sheila Squillante’s debut collection, Beautiful Nerve, are meant to unsettle. They draw on our anxieties and fears—somatic, linguistic, metaphoric—leading us somewhere somehow calming in its familiarity but troublingly unsteady: a bridge that ends abruptly as you cross it, the.
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