High Erratic Ecology by Julia Rose Lewis Sylvia Plath tormented by loss - hears

tormented by loss - hears something like it

where the only defence was the threat of mutually assured destruction

with the reader aware (just enough) of multiple voices

Archilochus’s father

breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe’s leading poets

High Erratic Ecology by Julia Rose Lewis Sylvia Plath tormented by loss - hearsImmediately apparent in the work of Julia Rose Lewis is a familiarity, an affability, one presupposing affinity between herself and her reader, but a proximity that is, and I think this is her great strength, her true power as a poet in fact, based upon a fundamental distance. Her poems are original, and in so being, they are deceptive. From the first note of her work, the poems are distinct. Their intricacy, their fundamental difficulty emerge only