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Synopsis
Lisa Harris’ book length poem, Dwelling Space, is a precise exploration of the world. To enter this space with her is to linger with bees among flowers and stand with her among all things green. This is poetry that ponders diverse landscapes and listens to the languages of sea otters, wolf eels, and trigger fish; this is a voyage to the Brazilian rain forest, to the Pyrenees Mountains of Spain, to Greece, and a journey from Coastal Georgia north to the Allegheny Mountains.
But ultimately, in Dwelling Space, Harris is a gardener of time and dust, sharing a holy passport for destinations beyond borders.
The Bardian, winter 2018, commented on Harris’ first collection of poems, Traveling Through Glass, a collaboration with visual artist, Patricia Brown:
“This multi-disciplinary collaboration, in which Brown sketched in charcoal a model dancing to Harris’s poems, engages the intellect (“we leave and never arrive, as Zeno predicted, reductio ad absurdum”) and also the senses (“Tenor toned your velvet voice makes a pillow for me to choose.”)”
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About the Author
Lisa Harris writes poetry, short fiction, novels and creative non-fiction. Her poetry has been published in journals such as ginosko, descant, Puerto del Sol, Vending Machine Press, Karamu, The Coe Review, The Penman, and SLAB. She lives and writes in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Review
Poet Harris (Traveling Through Glass, 2017) honors her predecessors while also blazing new trails in this accomplished long poem.
T.S. Eliot dedicated his landmark 1922 poem The Waste Land to his friend and collaborator Ezra Pound, whom he called “the greater craftsman.” It’s hard not to think that Eliot, in turn, is a huge source of inspiration for Harris’ latest work. Eliot’s poem famously opens, “April is the cruellest month [...] stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” Harris starts hers on a similar note: “Each month brings rain and emptiness, / blank skies, torpid melodies.” Harris’ work, like Eliot’s, is long; both are divided into five parts; and they share favorite images and themes—desert, rock, water, and divination, to name a few. However, Harris’ syntax is less tortured and her lines longer, which gives her writing a smoothness that even the modernist master sometimes lacked. And unsurprisingly, given the title, she’s much more invested in creating a fully developed sense of place. Harris builds arresting, intricate interior landscapes that both replicate and evoke exterior ones; here, for example, she describes an early-winter walk in the gray forest: “Black walnut, spruce, and sugar maple, / red oak, pine, and rare pink dogwood— / leaves and needles, needles and leaves, / bark and branches, branches and bark. // In the slate sky of December, as light / inches back to bright, skeletons / are visible on a path she walks.” The poet deftly plays the specific (black walnut, spruce, maple) against the general (leaves and needles) in the opening lines, and the unobtrusive alliteration in the fifth line—“slate sky”—gives the image a striking power. In passages such as these, Harris proves that she’s a craftswoman of considerable skill.
A distinctive, poetic space that’s worth dwelling in.
— Kirkus Reviews
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- PublisherCayuga Lake Books
- Publication date2024
- ISBN 10 1681112825
- ISBN 13 9781681112824
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages84
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