Poetry. Cultural Writing. ".....I cannot so much as read a few phrases of Lissa Wolsak's poetry, than I am at it--thinking poetics, writing poetics, declaiming a nature of poetry I hazard to aver that I perceive there. No sooner have I worked what seems the sense of one of her remarkably suggestive phrases, than the event shifts under my cognitive gaze. It did mean thus and so--but having said that, another significance arises into view, another sense of the phrase's en-nested-ness in phrases gone before, another set of significant relations. There is a movement here of the most significant sort, that will not lend itself to precise determination, if only (but not only) because it is each determination that sets the thing in motion. There is a positive constancy, a rumor of a vast and happy sphere in the intuition of which and in the happiness of one's orientation toward which, integration of contingency and optimization towards harmonic opulence might thrive. Some texts or images exude the

Author City: Vancouver, BC CAN

Lissa Wolsak is a poet, goldsmith, and energy-field therapist living in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has published several essays and long poem sequences, at times crossing these genres in her works.