Shiny Things is a marvelous compendium, a gallery of impressions and reflections inspired by art experience, travel, the natural world. The poems, some ekphrastic, many synesthetic, are lush, electric, vivid as gemstones. But there is a magical translucence to them: Magee doesn't only look at, but through the varied subjects and objects of this transparent life. In these chromatic, radiant poems, the poet's own "glassy eye sees through itself / to the other side of wonderment."

-Sati Mookherjee, author of Eye and Ways of Being

Shiny Things is a poetry collection that invites us to come and discover. Whether the subject is a bridge or damselfly, a post office or a painting, Michael Magee's rich observations and wonderfully startling comparisons coax us into seeing anew, listening again, rethinking, and reimagining. These deeply layered poems yield new meaning with each reading, and they are worth opening again and again.

-Connie Hampton Connally, author of Fire Music and The Songs We Hide