Breaking The Skin Of Paradise

"After winter she still had stiff meat when they grafted her into wood by hand", and so here begins a sensibility of imagery and action with Jana Orlovás poetry. Orlová uses raw statement and form to create a resonance within the reader that goes beyond the minds interpretations of what is on the page before one. She uses an emotion free experiential poetry that is both strong and straight up, with tones of the spiritual and mystical, reaching out from the dark within the lines. Orlovás poetry acknowledges the world and its reality, performing between taboo and transgression. She presents to us existence, fleeing the ideal for the real, to echo not yet understood thoughts and feelings that can be gotten when one reads this poetry or experiences the erotic/moment. With a clarity that obscures the true depth of the poetrys meanings, be taken by the hand of the poet and "imagine you could break the skin of paradise" and be released onto these coming pages to experience Orlová perform magic with words.