Confessions of a Love Addict by Jinni James

What’s particularly delightful about these poems is the fluidity and surprise with which they transform their subjects. Robin Smith’s Confessions of a Love Addict is aptly titled: it’s a colorful, shimmering parade through myriad intimacies that glitter like so many “bouquets of pink star balloons and cherry blossoms.” The seventeen poems in this collection are so bursting with sensuous experience that they practically hum on the page in a dizzying, often drunken, buzz. ~Marina Mularz author of Welcome to Freedom Point

Smith makes magic with her poetry, turning familiar feelings into electrifying revelations, all while creating a landscape of language where no two words strike the same chord, but when coupled, they bring a reader to their knees. To spend your time with “Confessions of a Love Addict” is to spend your time exploring the sensory spectrum of love, lust, loneliness and all afflictions in between.

Heidi Czerwiec, author of Fluid States and Conjoining (part of which appeared as A Is For A-k é with Dancing Girl Press.) “This is love that guts you, that you yourself gut open, 'the inside of your rib cage/ your heart and intestines/ jeweled squid/ alive and threatening.' A love that speaks to its own heart and knows, 'I'm afraid to be with her and just her.' It's a love that expends itself on several affairs over the course of these poems, but which ultimately returns to declare, in 'Self Love,' that 'I will be your greatest love story.there is so much joy in relearning.'

Confessions of a Love Addict by Jinni James