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Praise
for Storm Damage:
"In the poem IMAGINE, the speaker asks, 'What did
I do to make the world so stingy? / And how is every day just
one thing / Rather than a number of things / And is this so
wrong?' The observant ego in Melissa Hotchkiss' impressive first
collection, STORM DAMAGE, often settles for little but wonders
what else there is, or could be. This is a startling book spoken
by a voice at once spare, cold, vulnerable, desperate, syntactically
peculiar, elegant, disturbing, sexy, and even funny. Hotchkiss
writes multi-dimensional, often heart-breaking, and always urgent
poems." —Martha Rhodes
"Melissa
Hotchkiss' poems have the powerful de-familiarizing quality
of certain Eastern European films. One careful, oddly lighted
take after another – focusing on very minute, ordinary
things – suddenly releases an enormous spookiness, sadness,
or longing." —Alan Williamson
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