REVIEWS
"Jason Heroux has a unique way of looking at the world, marked by sensory imagery and bittersweet—maybe just bitter—observations. Anyone leading the ordinary, workaday life, possessing the ability to look at things objectively, will see truth and familiarity in Heroux's weary world. Comes with a beautiful cardstock cover featuring a watercolour illustration by artist Doni Connor."
—MONDOmagazine
"Jason Heroux takes one on a journey through what could be considered mundane happenings in life if they were not all laden with an array of haunting images. He artfully animates objects and weather patterns into living, breathing images. Each poem, no matter how small, finds the sadness of life that hides in the space below the surface most of us see. The poems themselves are not depressing yet are dark enough to make one think with a far off stare that often accompanies deep sadness. ... The book is a slow moving melancholy that creeps its way into your very being. At times, I found my eyes wet with tears, with a heaviness in my chest that made me clutch the book to me. I have not been so moved by a collection of words in a long time."
—The Guild of Outsider Writers
"I enjoyed Heroux’s The Sea Never Drowns, not only for its catch-you-off-guard-in-a-good-way images and its thought-firing style but for the surrealism that these latter two create. ... Cryptic without being obtuse, inventive without being MFA obscure. ... The Sea Never Drowns is right up the alley for buffs of the sensible and the off-the-wall. And readers who like the everyday shook up. This chapbook of twenty poems is worth the read and many re-reads."
—Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene
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