Robin Coste Lewis Wins Pen/Voeleker Award for Poetry Collection
"Employing an adept methodology of reframing, Lewis asks us to expand the ways we might imagine what it means to 'read' and 'see' on the plane or stage of a book’s page. As readers migrate through To The Realization of Perfect Helplessness they are met with twists and turns that function to defy and subvert one’s expectations of what an image can be and what imagery can do. Ultimately, Lewis’ work tenderly forces our collective imagination to evolve."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Oliver Baez Bendorf on "I Want Biodegradable Sex"
"I am often suggesting to students that when it comes to style, we each have a 'terroir'— a particular flavor made up of the unique places and vocabularies that we have absorbed....But the thing is that terroir is not only style. It is substance. It is not even quite right to say that it is also substance. It is exactly that, substance. It’s the matter we are made of. Terroir is what you write and how you write it. The goal is to write what only you could." |
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