Sharon Bryan''s third collection reveals a clever, ironically detached curiosity about how human beings mediate experience through language. Whatever personal emotions underlie these witty, deftly-crafted poems are transcended by Byran''s rationalism and her focus on how we have ''invented words to keep the world / just out of reach.''--Poetry
Reading [the poems of Flying Blind] is like watching a trapeze artist suspended between one flying bar and another, framed by the essential element of air. I found myself laughing, delighting in Sharon Bryan''s original turn of mind, spinning on her surface wit. And I found myself saddened by a generalized sense of loss that incorporates my own. At the deepest level, Sharon Bryan''s terrain resides in each of us.-The Georgia Review
The finely crafted, intelligent poems in Bryan''s third collection concern the relationships or perceived relationships between life and death, the living and the dead,
