best man
best man, winner of the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize (New England Poetry club), is an elegy written twenty-five years after the loss of Lewis’ brother to an overdose. Lewis revisits a troubled “disquieted soul” that could not be put to rest until fully mourned, and learns that mourning cannot be accomplished until anger and blame are released and love rediscovered.
“ A beautifully imaged, excruciatingly and closely-observed poems that form a collage of a complicated life and the family members who tried to sustain in.” (Kate Daniels)
“A spare, beautifully realized, and humane book of poems dramatizes how we survive our lives, which are sometimes filled with daylight, but also shadowed by dark grief. How rare to discover a first book that is a fully mature work of art.” (Edward Hirsch)
Reviews
Sabotage: Reviews of the Ephemeral, Alice Merry (2015)
San Anatonio Express, Yvette Benavida (2015)
Head Butler, Jesse Kornbluth (2015)
Poetry Magazine Dec 2015 Reading Lists
Wilderness House Literary Review vol 10, no.4, Denis Daly (2015)
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene, Emily PInea (2015)
Medical Humanities, The Reading Room, Wendy French (2016)