Description
Poetry. "The poems of Owen Lewis's MARRIAGE MAP take their inspiration from Athena's owl that had the ability to enlighten the goddess's dark side. It is the same owl that flies 'beyond the moon' in the poem 'Two Dreams,' the same owl that flies up the stairwell in a house haunted and defined by separation, the same owl that 'skims the night river/like a single wing/of the moon,' and the same owl—in a figure of hard-earned wisdom—that finally offers its example to lovers who also 'mean to fly,' to be made whole beyond 'the names of loss' and life's inevitable 'mingling of hurts.' Aware as they are that each day becomes history, these deeply felt, unsparing, wise, and urgently crafted poems chart a passage to recovery, healing, celebration. Owen Lewis's MARRIAGE MAP has the feel of hard-won truth—poetry that knows its territory."—Daniel Tobin
Author Bio
Owen Lewis is the author of three collections of poetry, FIELD LIGHT (Dos Madres Press, 2020), MARRIAGE MAP (Dos Madres Press, 2017), and SOMETIMES FULL OF DAYLIGHT (Dos Madres Press, 2013), and two chapbooks. BEST MAN (Dos Madres Press, 2015) received the 2016 Jean Pendrick Chapbook Prize (The New England Poetry Club). Recent honors include 2018 Runner-up, Wigtown Poetry Competition (Scotland); 2017 Finalist, Pablo Neruda Award; 2016 Winner, International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. His poetry has appeared in Nimrod, The Mississippi Review, Poetry Wales, Southward, The Four Way Review and other journals. He is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City where he teaches in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA