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Small Boat : Poems by Lesle Lewis is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"" . . . [a] deeply odd and original debut . . . It's the jazzy, oblique incantation more often associated with urban poets, skillfully applied to Lewis's rural milieu. . . . In Lewis's poems, the familiar bucolic landscapes of New England become something to learn down to the bones, and then to sail away from. It is a measure of her strength as a poet that she is able to make the journey, in a fierce and strange small boat of her own devising."--Time Out New York"Here's the amazing thing about the prose poems in Lewis's first book, Small Boat . . . they manage to be startling and tender at the same time. . . . This is quirky, intriguing stuff, poetry on a crazy, winding path you can't help but follow."--Jane Eklund, Talisman"Lesle Lewis has created a wonderful, dreamlike world, where joy and sorrow are never far apart. I am deeply moved by the honest searching of these poems. They seem to me wholly original, like no one else. Hers is a rich, complicated voice, beautiful, mysterious, and heartbreaking." -- James Tate"Prose poetry, for better or for worse, is no longer marginal, and yet in spite of its current popularity there is very little to marvel at. Enter newcomer Lesle Lewis,
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- Author
- Lesle Lewis
- Publisher
- University Of Iowa Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780877458395
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry
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