Equal parts fable, modernist prose poem, philosophical investigation, and social geography, Landscapes I & II makes all these elements talk to each other through daring juxtaposition. Something always lies beneath or above or beyond."-The Keene Sentinel "In their nervous eloquence, Lesle Lewis's surprising lines behave like brushstrokes that barely touch the page before lifting off again in the mind. In future reviews and poetry readings I may sign-off or leave the room immediately with a 'Feh! Not as good as Lewis.'"-Stride Magazine "Lewis gives us the something that is always other than the first touch. This is a bar-raising kind of collection. Employing collage reminiscent of Gertrude Stein's breathless dazzle, Lewis creates landscapes where surreal meets New England bucolic, meaning is arrived at cumulatively, and the animated and the 'real' converse. In confident prose poems, 'Abstraction puts on her cowboy boots' and strides into the unknown. Juxtaposing the rolling rhythms of prose with distinctly poetic content, Lewis has come up with another incisively intelligent, deeply generous collection-it's a gift to contemporary poetry."-Cole Swensen "The whimsical, highly animated landscapes of Lesle Lewis' second collection will surprise and delight. We feel them going on, building beyond the page. Lesle Lewis' elegant sentences non-sequitur into uncanny compilations that are never done.
Nin Andrews "If you think a complete sentence expresses a complete thought, forget it. In poem after poem she surprises the reader with her uncanny sensibility and metaphysical insights. Her poems are at once abstract and intimate, wryly witty and sad, real and surreal. As we read early in A Boot's a Boot, ''We imagine a pronoun that says some people sometimes and sometimes includes ourselves.'' I love this book! -Jon Woodward Lesle Lewis is one of the unique voices of American poetry today. Maybe the puzzle of our shared world is ultimately grammatical, and the baffling specificity of every lived moment awaits the arrival of a keyword to unlock its sense: a simply sufficient pronoun. The lines and lives are delimited with chronic end-stops, saturating the poems with infectious, pensive music. I love this book, her poems never fail to mesmerize."-Dara Wier Lesle Lewis's back-country-New-England sense of humor gains intensity from an attunement to the moonlit mysteries of disappeared loved ones without ceding any of her unique perplexity. She takes fate and time and talks to them about love and inevitable grief. What she thinks and how she lets us into her thought stirs up one's imagination, invites us to be as alive as her thoughts are, and shows us once again what poetry can do when we let it roam as the feral thing it is. "There isn't another poet imagining and delivering poetry as Lewis does. She teaches at Landmark College in Putney, Vermont, and lives in Alstead, New Hampshire. in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. in English at Keene State College, and an M.F.A. in education at the New York University, an M.A.L.S. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines including American Letters and Commentary, Green Mountains Review, Barrow Street, Pool, The Hollins Critic, The Massachusetts Review, and Jubilat, and featured on the Academy of American Poets website. Her first collection, Small Boat (University of Iowa Press, 2003), won the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize. Publishers Weekly, wrote Few poets handle both syntax and sound as she does, and few flirt so well both with, and against, common sense, with and against ordinary adult experience. In reviewing her previous collection, lie down too, winner of the 2010 Beatrice Hawley Award, (Alice James Books, 2011). She is author of four poetry collections, most recently A Boot's a Boot, winner of the 2013 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Book Competition.
Lesle Lewis is an American poet and professor.
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