New Poetry Collection “Cynically Speaking” Takes Aim at Political Theater and Social Hypocrisy

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Evelyn Polisar has released "Cynically Speaking," a poetry collection that the author describes as an effort to put into words what she observes in the world without blunting any of it, according to the announcement of the release.

The collection takes on bureaucratic dysfunction, social hypocrisy, and the gap between what institutions promise and what they deliver, per the announcement. Polisar, who has spent years developing what the release calls an eye for institutional folly and human behavior, writes in short, direct verse aimed at readers who want their own skepticism reflected back at them rather than softened.

"This collection emerged from my need to articulate what I see around me without softening the edges," Polisar said in the announcement. "I wanted to create something that felt true, even when — or especially when — that truth is uncomfortable."

The publisher’s description frames the book’s approach as turning cynicism into something closer to clarity than complaint, presenting honest disillusionment as a starting point rather than a dead end. Whether that lands as insight or simply as venting will likely depend on the reader’s own appetite for unsparing commentary on contemporary life.

"Cynically Speaking" is published through Page Publishing and is available at bookstores and through major online retailers including Amazon, Apple Books, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.

Studio CarryOnHarry will be curious to see whether readers drawn to political satire in verse find this collection lands with the specificity that genre demands, or leans more on tone than target.

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