{"id":8268,"date":"2015-11-11T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cemeterydanceonline.com\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2015-11-11T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:40:07","slug":"review-an-exorcism-of-angels-by-stephanie-wytovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-an-exorcism-of-angels-by-stephanie-wytovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#039;An Exorcism of Angels&#039; by Stephanie Wytovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rawdogscreaming.com\/books\/an-exorcism-of-angels\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b><i>An Exorcism of Angels <\/i>by Stephanie Wytovich<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Raw Dog Screaming Press\u00a0(May 2015)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>163\u00a0pages, e-book $4.99, paperback $13.95<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0Anton Cancre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7054\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/exorcismofangels-199x300.jpg?resize=199%2C300\" alt=\"exorcismofangels\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/>So that we are clear, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Exorcism of Angels<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a book of poems about love, but they are a far cry from the images of roses and violets and fleas as sex metaphors. Stephanie Wytovich presents us with love born of need instead of desire. Love that is desperate, angry, bitter and spewing bile and that red, red kroovy all over the place. Love with no happily ever after, ending in padded rooms and jail cells with screams echoing outside and in. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just look at what Stephanie does with \u201cCanonize Him with Knives,\u201d where the perfection our unnamed woman sees within her adored love can only, in her mind, be displayed for others by cutting him to pieces left in a box on the church steps. Or the bitter despondency and regret that pours through the forever unanswered \u201cQuestions for the Corpse.\u201d These are cruel lessons learned by \u201cThe Girl who Slept with Monsters\u201d and the deceptively simple \u201cThought Process,\u201d the kind that snap minds and souls into twisted fragments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, I think \u201cMourning Season\u201d best encompasses what Wytovich is doing here. Love, she makes clear within these lines, is not something that enriches existence. Instead, \u201cIt\u2019s blank, encompassing, and it kills her from the inside out as if it were some parasite drinking her sadness until there was nothing left but to beg for death.\u201d If this is a red, red rose, the color is coming from severed veins instead of pigment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you like your poetry more formal, you probably won\u2019t like Wytovich\u2019s style. Many of the poems are presented prose style, forcing the reader to find the rhythms and the flow of it on their own. On the other hand, people looking for direct, visceral and absolutely brutal poems that assault as much as they entrance will likely enjoy themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Exorcism of Angels by Stephanie Wytovich Raw Dog Screaming Press\u00a0(May 2015) 163\u00a0pages, e-book $4.99, paperback $13.95 Reviewed by\u00a0Anton Cancre So that we are clear, An Exorcism of Angels is a book of poems about love, but they are a far cry from the images of roses and violets and fleas as sex metaphors. Stephanie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-an-exorcism-of-angels-by-stephanie-wytovich\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: &#039;An Exorcism of Angels&#039; by Stephanie Wytovich&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[471,399,42,472,79,473],"class_list":["post-8268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-an-exorcism-of-angels","tag-anton-cancre","tag-featured","tag-raw-dog-screaming-press","tag-reviews","tag-stephanie-wytovich"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: &#039;An Exorcism of Angels&#039; 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