Infinite Collisions

In the twenty Elizabethan sonnets that make up Infinite Collisions, Issa M. Lewis explores family, home, progress and time. By integrating the organic and the man-made within the structure of a strict form, Lewis replicates an old life-line, reaching back, while being moved forward, through time. These are poems that pulse through our veins, like blood. Infinite Collisions succeeds, not only in its clarity and weaving of story, but on a physical level, which is where poetry is always most pure (Jennifer Martelli).

Issa M. Lewis is a graduate of the New England College MFA in Poetry program and was the 2013 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize awarded by Backbone Press. Her poems have appeared in Pearl, Naugatuck River Review, Blue Lyra Review, and many others. She currently teaches composition and professional writing at Davenport University and serves on the editorial board of Trio House Press, a small press publishing distinct voices in American poetry. She lives with her husband and two sons, enjoying every beautiful season in west Michigan.