Silvertone (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)
“Music rises out of the body of experience in Dzvinia Orlowsky’s lyrical new collection Silvertone, named after her father’s guitar. Like that guitar being evaluated by the guitar salesman in Scituate ‘the neck is warped. / The strings are shot from human sweat,’ this collection is compellingly shaped by a sense of lyrical possibilities and actuality’s limitations—as if the body’s a rented musical instrument, where memory is ‘weightless / as embers of music.’ Orlowsky’s voice, by turns, piercing or meditative, knows we are ‘All of us, sumptuous vanishing points.’” (Rebecca Seiferle)