In his review of Stephen Morrissey’s Family Album , A.M. Forbes writes in Canadian Literature, “Family Albums are dangerous. In Stephen Morrissey’s Family Album, each verbal photograph is a mise en abyme . Each reflects, in spare images, a stage in the male speaker’s earlier self.” Anecdotal and spare, the poems in Family Album recount moments of childhood and adult life that are singular and stand out from the day-to-day experiences; here the poet articulates those events that mark turning-points into self-awareness and self-consciousness.

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