Arlyn’s premier chapbook, Measurable Terms, is available through The Main Street Rag. It was included in the American Academy of Poet’s Poetry Reading List for the 25th Anniversary of National Poetry Month.
Signed copies can be acquired by emailing arlynlabelle@gmail.com.
Thoughts on Measurable Terms:
“Poem by poem, LaBelle has built for their readers a place to enter and live, whether a reader’s experience mirrors the speaker’s or not. Scented, overheated rooms are vivid here, where “window blinds click against a window, all like thin things breaking”. Inhabitants, human and otherwise, are deeply braided into each other, fleshed and undressed, “thick socks sleeping/on the sofa”. LaBelle is unwaveringly attentive, skilled, brave, both harmed and, most beautifully, singing.” –Kathleen Peirce - Poet, Professor of English at Texas State University
”Arlyn LaBelle’s debut poetry chapbook, Measurable Terms, speaks as a voice within a voice, which is “unquiet, a rolling storm” & silently fragile, as hands becoming birds, “their little hearts beating.” In its four sections you will find resignation, distance, rebellion & rupture that captivates, especially when each part is ultimately woven into the whole essence of being.”
-Diane Sahms—Poetry Editor, North of Oxford