Prose
poetry isn’t as easy as it might look. I didn’t realize what tight control it
can require until reading three recently published works by poet Susan Lewis, two
of which are prose poetry and one of which is the more familiar verse style.
Lewis
is an accomplished poet, having published numerous collections and chapbooks,
including Animal Husbandry, Commodity Fetishism, The Following Message and At Times Your Lines. With the space of
roughly a year, she published three years, two collections and a chapbook, and
these are three I’ve recently read: How
to Be Another, State of the Union
and This Visit. Her poetry has been
published in numerous literary journals and poetry publications.
The
poetry in the three collections has a broad range of subjects – commercialism,
food, environmental issues, language, relationships, top mention only a few –
but each of the volumes reflects a similar voice, a voice utilizing an observant
eye and an air of authority.
To
continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
