Tag: Susan Lewis
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one more from Susan Lewis
In my recent microreview & interview of Zoom (The Word Works, 2018) by Susan Lewis, I discussed Lewis’ deftness with the prose poem as working through a push-pull between familiarity and distinction. The traditional structures of sentence and paragraph are subverted in the poems of Zoom with non-traditional phrasing and concepts. In the case of “In Praise of […]
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microreview & interview: Zoom by Susan Lewis
review by José Angel Araguz In a recent conversation about prose poetry, I found myself tasked with defining what makes a prose poem “poetry” exactly. I fell back on my usual starting point, some riffing on Charles Simic’s idea shared in an interview that “[what] makes them poems is that they are self- contained, and […]
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fallacying with susan lewis
In my recent microreview & interview of Susan Lewis’ Heisenberg’s Salon (BlazeVox [books]), I discuss the ways in which the poems in the collection engage with the uncertainty principle and its take on the relation between position and momentum. My own crude, working definition of the concept takes me back to my reading into Zen, ideas like how we […]
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microreview & interview: Susan Lewis’ Heisenberg’s Salon
review by José Angel Araguz Drawing inspiration from German physicist Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which “states that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa,” Susan Lewis’ latest collection, Heisenberg’s Salon (BlazeVOX [books]), presents a prose poem collection that evokes the form’s surrealist traditions […]
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* new review at The Volta Blog!
Just a quick note to share the publication of my review of This Visit by Susan Lewis. Check it out at The Volta Blog! Here’s a link to “Dear Dear” (published at Ink Node) a poem from the second section of This Visit. To find out more about Susan’s work, check out the poet’s site. Happy Dear-ing! […]