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by Susan Lewis

Winner of the 2017 Washington Prize. These prose poems bubble and sizzle with the anxieties of our age and torqued linguistic wordplay, conveying both our terrors and our longings. Love is confusing, the world seems to be crumbling, and yet—and yet! The poet and her reader still somehow come out on top, with a long view into a future where we have held ourselves accountable and learned not just to “fix things” but to sing again.

Genres: Poetry

83 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 2018

About the author

SUSAN LEWIS lives in New York City and edits Posit (www.positjournal.com). She is the author of "This Visit" (BlazeVOX [books], 2015)(now available for preorder),"How to be Another" (Červená Barva Press, 2014), "State of the Union" (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2014), "The Following Message" (White Knuckle Press, 2013), "At Times Your Lines" (Argotist Ebooks, 2012), "Some Assembly Required" (Dancing Girl Press, 2011), "Commodity Fetishism", winner of the 2009 Červená Barva Press Chapbook Award, and "Animal Husbandry" (Finishing Line Press, 2008). Her Pushcart Prize-nominated work has been performed on stage and in concert halls such as Carnegie’s Weill Hall and the Kennedy Center, and published in a great number of journals and anthologies, such as The Awl, Berkeley Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Cimarron Review, EOAGH, Gargoyle, The Journal, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Propeller, Raritan, Seneca Review, Verse, and Verse Daily.

Find out more at www.susanlewis.net,
visit her Amazon author's page at www.amazon.com/author/susanlewispoet/, or like her books on Facebook.

Reviews

[Jeffrey Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

"In the carousel of life, every lap a gold ring robbed from the rest, unable to retry." Susan Lewis channels the sky-song of the "lark." Amusing and musical, smart and witty, inventive yet winningly folksy—a linguistic recalibration of liberatiing soul. Astonishing. Congrats! From The Word Works out of DC.