Foreign Native

by Lisa Samuels

Poetry. A foreign native lives attentive to ifs. These poems are bodies walking out news, sound tracers, raw history in civic flesh, theaters of identity and talks in love. Poetry is a foreign native in our plans for language; it makes paradoxes of belonging if. The world of the poem's imagination is like Peirce's cave without walls. Our boundary disks fly out at will, expand.

Genres: Poetry

152 pages, Paperback

Published April 15, 2018

Reviews

[Jemma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful and intellectual, intriguing, tight, intricate, free. There’s space to move around as words enter you in different ways; I felt myself imagining stories that weren’t there after filling in gaps (literal - as they relate to page/ typography, and imagined - as it relates to a conjured image and idea(s) via the word). A talented and gifted writer hard to review, her mind appears to think and talk in poetry and paradox and translation. There is a lot to keep up with, which makes reading or experiencing her poetry all the more fun.