In One Form to Find Another by Jane Lewty (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, paperback)
Publication Date: April 1, 2017
Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2016 CSU Poetry Center Open Book Prize. "IN ONE FORM TO FIND ANOTHER is an heroically unsettling and compelling textual reenactment of feminine embodiments' lament, contemplation and recalibration of disturbed histories irrevocably intertwined with traumatic experience. In intense, palpable language, Lewty lays bare the somatic registers of complex and fraught circumstances that cling to the body as sensory framework, muscle memory and 'non-bearing loads.' This momentous and powerful book evokes feminist theory and practice, psychoanalytic discourse, and unflinching lyric to render the inscrutable territory of trauma tangible and perceptible. With each nuanced register Lewty cultivates a body politic of powerful disclosure and release." —Brenda Iijima
"This is how we feel: the body remembers what the mind wants to forget. Inexplicable physical symptoms—indirect translations of traumatic past events—are rendered into language on medical message boards. In turn, these poems are mysterious lexical symptoms that connect words to feeling. Lewty's book is an inventory of intensity." —Jena Osman
