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Review of The Glass Studio by Sandra Yannone, Karen Poppy, Full review at sinister wisdom.org | “Within Yannone’s collection, we find family and patriarchal myths pieced together. The myths, like the stained glass, fused and shimmering, are dangerous and alluring in their creation and perpetuation, but an art form of liberation when we act in their dismantling.

A Review of Boats for Women by Sandra Yannone, Mary Ellen Talley, Full review at CompulsiveReader.com | “Sandra Yannone’s brave poems contribute to popular history of the time, flooding us with the arc, the ache, of family and lesbian relationships in her first full-length collection. Some poems live in heartbreak, some, in ecstatic joy. They are worthy of many rereads."

Boats for Women by Sandra Yannone, Gale Hemmann, Full review in Calyx, Vol. 32:2 | "Sandra Yannone’s Boats for Women takes us on a water journey across the core themes of a life, tackling loss — from historical shipwrecks (the Titanic and others), to relationships docked for a bit and then untethered. … We journey with Yannone over centuries conjured and get to swirl in the sensuality of her language. Through it, we watch the light play on the water, are repeatedly cast under with her, and come out again."

Women in Dangerous Waters: On Poems by Sandra Yannone, Deborah Bacharach | Available in print in New Letters, Vol. 86, Nos. 1 & 2