Amanda Torroni

Whether between points of lights in the sky or the freckles on a lover's skin, Amanda Torroni's poetry finds the beautiful patterns in the material of life. In this collection, Amanda Torroni expands on her previously published chapbook, Stargazing at Noon, adding over seventy poems and brand-new material. Torroni writes about intimacy, distance, the body, self-doubt, nostalgia, and love--both lost and found. Her poems weave disparate source material into beautiful metaphor; readers are as likely to find Plato and neurological terminology as they are moonlit lovers and broken hearts.

Stargazing at Noon

Shannon Arputharaj

Stargazing at Noon is like a captured exhale. Like a lullaby. Like an intangible, ungraspable, nostalgic reminder of why I love poetry and why I need Amanda’s. Each poem is creatively written, as she explores using different formats, words, and sounds to describe different oceans, skies, and losses.The chapters are denoted by moon phases, and each one reads more visceral than the last. The whole thing is really beautiful; Amanda writes for people just starting to read poetry and for people who are analyzing every comma. You can go as deep as you allow yourself to and I think that is the coolest part. BUY THIS. READ THIS. LOSE YOURSELF IN THIS.

Stargazing at Noon

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