Tom Sandborn reviews Mythical Man for The Province and Vancouver Sun. The poems collected in Mythical Man are filled with compelling, chthonic imagery that can both stir and alarm the reader, calling for a courageous willingness to confront the darkness on the screen, in the world and in our own depths….Highly recommended. vancouver sun Read more

Author Hasan Namir reviews Mythical Man for PRISM international. In Mythical Man, every word is chosen with immense thought. Words are used with new meanings, and repetition is used with powerful irony. Every page turned from the book, I was amused, charmed and surprised. This debut collection proves that Ly is an unforgettable voice that… Read more

Poet Margaryta Golovchenko reviews Mythical Man for The Puritan. By digging up and overturning society’s and social media’s myth-making, Ly illuminates just how loaded the very notion of a “mythical man” is, how what has been deemed both ideal and unattainable is also so often a function of society’s systems of oppression. Instead, Ly subverts… Read more