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Embraces Against Empire: Review of JH Phrydas’
Levitations
by Jacob Bolda
Medium
Apr 2017
︎...To turn the page and find an eyelash tracing the fold. This little thing rests on the page as if resting on the knuckle of an outstretched hand. An eyelash, which implies all the gentility and phenomenal force of a face or many faces — as does each of Phrydas’ poems. Rather than rise and fall like waves, the bodies of Phrydas’ poetry simply continue to rise...︎
We Queers, Powered:
Levitations
by JH Phrydas
by M. Ryan Murphy
Entropy Magazine
Mar 2017
︎...For Phyrdas,
Levitations
is the first embrace of many – all surrounding the creation of queer space and community, a destruction of the illusion of set architecture and beliefs, and a personal love poem to the self and other poets that continue to expand our sphere of living and throw us into language that “keeps em from scattering.”...︎
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