"The remarkable dynamism of this book comes partly from the struggle it enacts between the confessional and postmodern modes. As the title Vivisect suggests, Lewis often seems to slice right into the living body, exposing the heart itself still beating with its dark secrets. But if language is the scalpel, it is also the flesh, offering at times a tough or slippery resistance, and revealing, when penetrated, more language that leads in multiple and unexpected directions, yet, like the mind, keeps circling back irresistibly to the troubling subjects it most wants to avoid. The result is rich, powerful, and complex poetry that gathers more weight with each reading." --Jeffrey Harrison
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Lisa Lewis's previous collections are The Unbeliever (Brittingham Prize), Silent Treatment (National Poetry Series), Story Box (Poetry West Chapbook Contest), and Burned House with Swimming Pool (American Poetry Journal Book Prize). She directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as poetry editor for the Cimarron Review.
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I would characterize the 'voice' in this collection as wounded to slowness, to prairie existentialism; unsentimental because unpredictable. You'll want to sit for a bit, instead of sashaying around; reconsider 'commitment' to poetry and to reading; time spent reading isn't ever time wasted. The 'girl' speaking in her earlier books is the 'girl' speaking in this book, and she is still looking out the window, cigarette between fingers, not quite ready to burn it all down.
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