Review

Michele Seminara's Suburban Fantasy is a disquieting romp behind suburban curtains

By Penelope Layland
November 28 2021 - 7:30am

The "fantasy" of Michele Seminara's second full-length collection of verse, Suburban Fantasy, establishes itself disquietingly from the first poem, and it's not the romp the raspberry-pink, pop-cultural binding of the book might suggest. This is fantasy from the word's deep etymological past-fantasy as illusory appearance, fantasy as mask or disguise, the veneer of respectability that conceals disturbances beneath.

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