Bainard Cowan

Signal / Noise

Arts & Literature

“Bill Scalia’s diction immediately pleases: his sense of what the poetic line will hold, often short and rhythmic whether metered or free. But there’s more. From a distant and detached longing—one prose poem records an ecstatic experience of a divine voice rebuking him—Signal / Noise deepens as it progresses, gathering steam for a dark road ahead where Scalia’s revelations are frighteningly real.”