The Scars Across My Thigh by Peter Kaczmarczyk
Encaptivating, it pulls you in with its whispered words and holds you there, feeling less like you’re reading poetry and more like you’re having a conversation, it is a beautiful collection that needs to be read. Take this journey, and walk with Peter through the pages.
Released in November through Alien Buddha Press, The Scars Across My Thigh is the second collection of poetry by Peter Kaczmarczyk.
The collection is exceptionally well done, covering a variety of topics, with loss being a reoccurring theme throughout the pages, written in such an unbelievably relatable way. My favorite overall was Box or an Urn, because of how very real it felt, and the emotion it stirred in me as a reader.
However, other incredible pieces include I See Our Mothers, Cool Sheets of a Hard Bed, Costumes, Scars Across My Thigh, Fitted Sheets and Translucence.
Peter has a unique voice that needs to be heard, so please, do yourselves a favor, and listen. I look forward to seeing more from him.
You can find a copy of The Scars Across My Thigh here https://a.co/d/3F23xgD
Distant Yet Always Heard by Peter Kaczmarczyk
The best books are the ones where you open them and within the first couple pages, you’re transported to a different place outside yourself, and that is exactly what Distant Yet Always Heard does. It’s beautiful, and also sad in it’s truth, where longing runs hand in hand with loss and you find yourself reminiscing over days past with the author.
Released in 2023, this is the debut chapbook from Peter Kaczmarczyk, through Alien Buddha Press. Peter’s voice here is unique, focusing largely on self-reflection, he writes in a way that pulls you in and causes you to reflect on the words themselves and thinking of your own experiences as you read.
I found Journey Into Winter and My Own Wind to be the standout poems of the collection, but also feel Distant Yet Always Heard, At Your Funeral and Sunday Vest worthy of note, the entire chapbook well worth a read. It’s well written, with each piece going together and flowing smoothly, the book is exceptional; and at 35 pages, you could easily read it in one sitting, if you so chose.
You can find a copy of Distant Yet Always Heard here https://a.co/d/gPDaXrR