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… in remarkable lines of musicality and invention, frank desire, with imagery that stuns and dazzles.  

-Douglas Kearney, author of | Imagine | Been Science Fiction Always & Optic Subwoof

These poems...will not let us forget each other or leave anyone behind.

  • -Ana-Maurine Lara, author of Kohnjehr Woman & Erzulie's Skirt  

Saleeby Savage confronts the most recent decade of atrocities and…remind us...there’s a word for hope in every language.

-Armin Tolentino, author of We Meant To Bring It Home Alive  

With exhilarating lyric intensity, Savage's poems sing the horrors and pleasures of life in the 21st century.

-Rob Schlegel, author of Childcare  

Saleeby Savage reminds us...destroying and re-claiming…are two sides of the heart’s fragile coin. 

-Kristin Berger, author of Echolocation & How Light Reaches Us

This poet breathes the shards...into a fierce and irresistible music.

-Alexis Lathem, author of Lambs in Winter & Alphabet of Bones

Metal Used for Beauty Alone is a three-a.m. jam session…Savage anoints the reader with praise songs, spells, tributes to jazz legends…These witches hold nothing back.

—Jacqueline Johnson, author of A Woman’s Season 

This book is for those who…have had their hearts “savaged by grief” and “hate boxes”…metal used for beauty alone “blows a horn to heaven.”

—Christopher Luna, Inaugural Poet Laureate of Clark County, WA & founder of Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic     

Metal Used for Beauty Alone proposes and enacts a world where instruments prevail in production and resonance over guns…. Society in Metal Used for Beauty Alone…[pistols] a post-military-industrial complex through poetry... inviting us to tarab instead of annihilate.

—Katherine Factor, author of A Sybil Society: Poems

“experimental bellow and love utterance, jazz spells urge [us] to rage and energize as [we] heal the world.”

“a love story that reveals eros properly seen is a force as monumental as continental drift”