Angles of Approach: Poems

"The cumulative effect of Holly Iglesias' gorgeous prose poems in Angles of Approach is both hypnotic and disturbing. She is witness and actor alike, a citizen of American soil both running from and caught deep in its grand mistakes and its sharp-edged minutiae. There is humor to keep us from despair, and there is a dark vision that begs questions. Iglesisias, as a lover of history and a chronicler of its shared and intimate details, pronounces no judgements with her time elegies. She simply renders them musical and faultless, places them side by side, and invites us to listen"-Maureen Seaton, author of Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen

"It's unusual to call a book of poetry a 'page turner' but this collection, with the knocking and jostling of words that make the peculiar rhythm and appeal of the prose poem, is just that. Holly Iglesias has an uncanny ability to capture whole sweeps of history in a few lines, while her eye and ear for the quotidian result in the characters pulling us from one remarkable incident to another as if they had physically taken us by the elbow, whispering urgently. Here is nostalgia without sentimentality, menace without despair, confession without bathos."-Marie Harris

"Reading Angles of Approach is like getting out of the car after a road trip, having followed a map of blue highways through places both strange and familiar. The poems uncover the peculiar, contending histories of transplanted cultures that shape the light of those small answers that mean the most."-Gary Copeland Lilley