Tiffany Troy
Tiffany Troy is the author of Dominus (BlazeVOX [books]) and the chapbook When Ilium Burns (Bottlecap Press). She translated Catalina Vergara’s diamonds & rust (Toad Press International Chapbook Series). She is Managing Editor at Tupelo Quarterly, Associate Editor of Tupelo Press, Book Review Co-Editor at The Los Angeles Review, and Co-Editor of Matter.
On Dominus
What Troy forges … isn’t “corporate professional” compliance but a soul: the Nietzschean transformations of her speaker move through “the light Blake calls experience” to arrive at sublimity: “the golden center of the heart.”
—VIRGINIA KONCHAN, AUTHOR OF BEL CANTO
The most profound truth Troy impresses is a blueprint to interrogate the inferno of our everyday lives, lyre in hand, each “horrid spring” without compromising the music which survives us, as to never “kill the love in [our] hearts,” and face with dignity the Master and “myopic god who’s fuming.”
—VIRGINIA KONCHAN, AUTHOR OF BEL CANTO
Dominus is as insistent on justice as it is baffled by its own hope, and its indomitable, distinctive voice has a power unlike that of any debut collection I’ve ever read, or of any book in recent memory.
—TIMOTHY DONNELLY, AUTHOR OF CHARIOT
On When Ilium Burns
Tiffany Troy’s whip-smart debut brings to mind the irreverence and snap-crackle-pop allusiveness of Alan Dugan’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning first book. I can’t wait to read a whole volume of her poems!
—CYRUS CASSELLS, AUTHOR OF THE WORLD THAT THE SHOOTER LEFT US
I had never realized, viscerally, the havoc at the heart of piety nor felt, on my own flesh, the loving burden borne by Aeneas as he carried his father away from the burning towers, until I read these new poems by Tiffany Troy. Here is a poet beautifully competent to love’s furor and to its enduring fidelities. There is a new kind of heroism here, and it is thrilling.
—DONALD REVELL, AUTHOR OF THE ENGLISH BOAT
Collections & Chapbooks
Dominus
When Ilium Burns
Attached to the Living World
Anthologies
Constellation
Diamonds & rust
