Snorkeling beneath dust and deep, the poems in The Dishonesty of Dreams shapeshift from tender to tough at line-break speed in an ethereal dreamspace. Where AJ Odasso explored consequences in their first collection, Lost Books (2010), here Odasso engages the liminal, the reality that exists at the borders of a lived life; the fables we choose to build upon, the lies we tell ourselves to make our dreams true. In this liquid space emerges poetry of real power, beautifully crafted conjecture that illuminates the architecture of the human heart.
