“The sequence of 66 poems that makes up Vaun’s ambitious first collection is open and spacious.”

“Vaun’s poems are pervaded with a passionate intelligence that is at once both nakedly personal and socially wide-angle in its views of the past and present.”

“Oftentimes after I review an album, it is filed away and aural space is made for the new release I have to review. Not this time. I have continued listening to [Mishima USA’s] Hold My Breath non-stop. An incredible piece of musicianship.”

“The Cynthia Sessions is one of the top 10 albums of 2012! ”