Book Reviews | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

TELLING YOU WHAT TO THINK SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

Book Reviews | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

TELLING YOU WHAT TO THINK SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

Lesle Lewis’s lie down too reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin

Lesle Lewis's poetry collection, lie down too (Alice James Books), reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin: "The bizarreness of so many actions that comprise these poems seems both highly tempered and heightened by the easily digestible one-liners that often appear in otherwise opaque poems. 'To stay with the accessible would be ridiculous,' Lewis asserts in 'The Plastic Baby.' And maybe that line indeed is the built-in key on lie down too's underbelly. What, the book asks, is the payoff for staying 'with the accessible?'What is the payoff for not? These are just two of the questions raised by Lewis in lie down too, a book with many locks, many keys, and many underbellies."

Lesle Lewis’s lie down too reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin

Lesle Lewis's poetry collection, lie down too (Alice James Books), reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin: "The bizarreness of so many actions that comprise these poems seems both highly tempered and heightened by the easily digestible one-liners that often appear in otherwise opaque poems. 'To stay with the accessible would be ridiculous,' Lewis asserts in 'The Plastic Baby.' And maybe that line indeed is the built-in key on lie down too's underbelly. What, the book asks, is the payoff for staying 'with the accessible?'What is the payoff for not? These are just two of the questions raised by Lewis in lie down too, a book with many locks, many keys, and many underbellies."

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