Title: Parable of Hide and Seek
Description: “The poems in Parable of Hide and Seek… unveil secret worlds, ecstatically reinventing archetypes for the American landscape.”
—<em>BeLight</em>

“Sweeney’s poems reveal that language is parable, from the sound of a breath shaped by a mouth, to words artfully arranged on the page: there is much hidden, there is much below the surface, there is much to be discovered—”
—Sally Ashton, <em>Poetry Flash</em>

“[Sweeney] knows the poet’s job, and it shows…”
—<em>Galatea Resurrects</em>

“Sweeney employs careful and lush images informed by his natural surrealist bent…Like a good parable, the poems seem to nearly deliver a message. Like a dysfunctional parable, they also meander through a world of smells like a distracted dog.”
—<em>The Great American Pinup</em>
Subjects: Poetry, American poetry, 21st century poetry