Surrender When Leaving Coach

Poetry. Let me know if this is or isn’t ok. Reading the book made me very happy. If it were possible to work ‘a dialectical lasagna of grays’ into the blurb, I’d do it, but I don’t know that I can manage it in a way that serves the p.r. component of jacket copy.–Anselm Berrigan

I think it is possible to read Joel Lewis as the offspring of some celestial union of the New York School and the Objectivists–all that attention to detail, the wild sense of humor–but I read him myself as following in the tradition of the great New Jersey bards, Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams–that wild sense of humor, all the attention to detail. This is a wonderful, joyous book of poems, but even more important is the vision here of the great push-pull between poetry and life. This is one ride you won’t want to stop.–Ron Silliman