The Synesthesia Anthology (2013-2017)
“Easy lovers, incisive clarity, dreamlike images, scars of distinction, painful revelations inviting madness...this powerful and authentic collection of alert, innovative poetry reaches the heart of life and transfigures it into art. The Synesthesia Anthology represents four years and nine publications of Synesthesia Literary Journal, with a selection of 31 poems from across the issues. A showcase of 32 poems previously unpublished in Synesthesia by San Diego poets is also included.”
Praise for the Book
"There is something for everyone in this lovely collection: stories, songs, elegies, epiphanies, and incantations. If you open this book at random you might find yourself on a page that will make you laugh out loud. Or, you might be stunned because 'a verb is being nouned.' You might open this book on the day when life punches you. Hard. What to do, then? Keep turning pages and no doubt you will find a poet who teaches you the art of 'coaxing music from memories of the night.' We need some music—don't we?—in our days. Congratulations to the poets and to editors Gorrie and Martin for this beautiful work."
— Ilya Kaminksy, author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) and Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019), and Co-Director of San Diego State University's MFA in Creative Writing
"Eclectic and full of surprises, like a complex sonata, The Synesthesia Anthology features 63 poems from some of the best local poets—Ron Salisbury and Una Nichols Hynum at the head of that list—plus influential regional poets, including Joseph Millar and John Brantingham, and fine work from farther afield (Roger Aplon and Tammy Robacker. A broad variety of forms, subjects, styles, time frames, and insights distinguishes the collection—a credit to its editors."
— William Harry Harding, president of the San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild and publisher of the San Diego Poetry Annual