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"Watching from the Bleachers draws us into engagement with the world in all its brokenness and beauty. Eileen Ivey Sirota's poems traverse the spectrum from the personal to the political -- from the loving ambivalence between a cognitively impaired mother and her adult daughter to outraged examinations of racism, othering and indifference. In the poem ""In Which I Interrogate My Frequent Response"" the author's own privilege becomes the object of her sharp gaze. Covid and its time-distorting effects are a frequent backdrop to this work. The poems ""Master Class"" and ""Advice to a Freshman"" invite whimsical comparisons between the mating behavior of cicadas and college students. The inevitable losses of aging are captured elegiacally but without sentimentality. The broad sweep of these poems is held together by a unique sensibility that combines wit, wonder, outrage and, ultimately, hope."

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Eileen Ivey Sirota is a psychotherapist, poet, and potter. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, District Lines, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Voices: Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, NewVerseNews, Ekphrastic Review, Lighten Up Online and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Out of Order, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020. Having been raised in a family of political junkies and activists in the Washington DC area, political and cultural issues infuse her poetry. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland where she alternates between sputtering outrage and gob smacked wonder. Her latest book Watching from the Bleachers (Finishing Line Press, 2024) unites these two tendencies.

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