Press Roundup for Infinity Standing Up
Bedford + Bowery: "Infinity Standing Up is about more than Pisarra’s past romantic love: it showcases his continued love for creating engaging poetic experiences."
Bollman Bridge Review: "The last work, about a man talking to his therapist, actually made me laugh out loud, something few contemporary poems do these days."
Brooklyn Poets: An interview with an accompanying recording of two poems. CultureSonar: "It’s a slender book packed with humor and mathematics, pain and pleasure…with a winking acknowledgment of bitterness and wry, fond acceptance." decomP magazinE: "These are smart poems, at their smartest in the realization that wit won’t save—and rarely effectively salves—the pain and confusion that comes in the wake of a failed affair..."
Fourth & Sycamore: An essay on writing the sonnets in Infinity Standing Up. Gay Life After 40: Interview with queer men’s website.
Gertrude: "It’s love and lust for language that twists this spitting verse into new shapes, and praise be to Pisarra for those passions."
Grist: "Pisarra’s combination of traditional and experimental writing offers readers a fresh look into the everchanging topic of finding love." Independent Book Review: "For earnest lovers of poetry, Pisarra is like an alchemist with imagery." John V’s Eclectic Avenue: "...a powerful, intense and electrifying work."
Misfit Magazine: "These poems are clever , amusing more than fraught, and bend the form in ways I wouldn’t have thought possible." OnStage Blog: An essay on why the sonnet is a natural form for playwrights. Out in Print: "Pisarra is as confident and sure on the serious side as he is with wit and a well-turned phrase."
Penumbra: "Like infinity itself, what Pisarra can create through the joyous union of language and numbers, so often separated in literature, seems limitless." Poetry Society of America: Talking about the sonnet with fellow poet Diane Mehta. Ragazine: "...nobody could illustrate better than this contemporary sonneteer how to make manifold uses of the sonnet form and make the form the poet’s own."
Sacred Chickens: "Pisarra uses humor to good effect, not as mask, but employing it to season the real, raw feelings of love, the way the bitters bring out the flavors of a cocktail or salt the flavor of chocolate." Unlikely Stories Mark V: "The book delivers clever, cheeky, relatable, pleasing and sad sonnets."
The Washington Blade: "If Shakespeare and Cole Porter had a love child it would be Pisarra."
The Washington Post: "The poems in Infinity Standing Up (Capturing Fire Press) are brazen and lusty and often amusing..." Yes Poetry: "Prepare to grip and savor each sonnet, laugh at conundrums, and nod your head in agreement." Not Online
The Adirondack Review: "These sonnets sing even when singing is nearly impossible."
Main Street Rag: "For many readers, parts of these sonnets may very well reappear in the memory from time to time. That is the hallmark of good poetry."
Valley Voices: "Drew Pisarra’s Infinity Standing Up is by far one of the most relatable volumes of poetry currently in print."
