Poetry. Employing collage reminiscent of Gertrude Stein's breathless dazzle, Lewis creates landscapes where surreal meeets New England bucolic, meaning is arrived at cummulatively, and the animated and the "real" converse. "If you think a complete sentence expresses a complete thought, forget it. Leslie Lewis's elegant sentences non-sequitur into uncanny compilations that are never done. We feel them going on, building beyond the page. Juxtaposing the rolling rhythms of prose with distinctly poetic content, Lewis has come up with another incisively intelligent , deeply generous collection—it's a gift to contemporary poetry"—Cole Swensen.

Author City: ALSTEAD, NH USA

Lesle Lewis's books include Small Boat (University Of Iowa Press, 2003), LANDSCAPES I & II (Alice James Books, 2006), and LIE DOWN TOO (Alice James Books, 2011). Her poems have appeared in jubilat, The Massachusetts Review, Barrow Street, SENTENCE, Mississippi Review, American Letters & Commentary, Bateau, and many other journals. She lives in New Hampshire and teaches at Landmark College in Vermont.