RAVE REVIEWS FOR THE NO-NET WORLD:
FROM BOOG CITY:
Larissa Shmailo...really knows how to write, how to read, how to present her poetry...Shmailo's album is thoughtful, entertaining, and bears repeated listens.
FROM THE PEDESTAL MAGAZINE
[+]RAVE REVIEWS FOR THE NO-NET WORLD:
FROM BOOG CITY:
Larissa Shmailo...really knows how to write, how to read, how to present her poetry...Shmailo's album is thoughtful, entertaining, and bears repeated listens.
FROM THE PEDESTAL MAGAZINE
Listening to poet and translator Larissa Shmailo’s latest spoken word CD is almost like attending eighteen short plays in the span of forty minutes. Like the best plays, each poem tells a compelling story of human struggle, in which characters fight (and routinely fail) to obtain such basic necessities as food, shelter, liberty, even love. Like the best plays, her poems also crackle with breathtaking language, which in the true tradition of the tragedies of which she speaks almost sound as if they could be sung (indeed, in some cases they almost are). Shmailo’s expert understanding of the close relationship between poetry and drama, music and language, and the primal human need to just hear a really, really good story make The No-Net World a truly unique contribution to twenty-first century American poetry, and a CD worth listening to frequently and carefully.
If the poems on The No-Net World are beautiful, the CD’s sound quality and production only add to their beauty. The recording is mercifully free from static, interference, and white noise that often plague spoken word CDs. Shmailo’s rich, expressive contralto never sounds tinny or cavernous. Overall it is a nearly flawless CD that will especially appeal to patrons and practitioners of the performing arts, and to anyone who simply loves to hear a good story told well.
FROM POETIX.NET
“How My Family Survived the Camps,” [IS] the strongest, the most important poem here, and one which clearly is based on personal (or at least familial) experience, and one which carries great emotional power. In it she describes the combination of luck and ingenuity that enabled her family to survive the Holocaust. The key poem on the CD, it gives by far the best realization of her running theme, that how we react to what happens to us is as important as the events themselves."
FROM NEW CENTURY:
Intense and poignant.
Prepare to change your mind, your heart, your history!
Larissa Shmailo reads a selection of her most widely published poems, tak
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