Mark Doty
"'We are hopelessly enclosed by the measure of our skins,' Lisa Sewell writes. The argument at the heart of this book is whether the body is a source of hopelessness or hope. 'I put my faith in the physical,' Sewell tells us, but she understands how belief necessitates doubt, only existing beside it. Focused and accomplished, this fine debut collection is a fierce and engaging quarrel with the fact of flesh."
Deborah Digges
"Lisa Sewell's poetry brings to mind Keats' phrase, 'thinking through the heart.' More than any young poet writing today, her work frames an urgency shot through with history as she builds a model of consciousness, original, strange. These poems enact a lyric muscle that explodes narrative, throws it wonderfully off track into new regions of feeling, thought, experience."
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