[09/15/26] Lewis, Lesle: Survival of the Fittest Pronoun

Quale Press, paperback

Publication Date: September 19, 2026

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The themes of Survival of the Fittest Pronoun lay strewn among the paragraphs and pieces of the book, waiting in lair to ambush the reader and bring a context, and a certain resonating sense, to its title. Years and years went into the unmaking and then unmistakeable making of this book. And in the reader’s hands, and mind, it has a good chance to still become itself. The pieces touch on human consciousness, the natural world, inclusion, self, the other, mortality. The poems themselves become wholes of human consciousness. They confess to themslves that the existence or truth of one thing does not deny the existence or truth of another. That one poem does not deny another poem. In both beginning and end, the book proposes that we are little people in a big universe. And in order to survive we need to learn and relearn every day how to be good to each other. Ultimately, Survival of the Fittest Pronoun leaves the reader with the overriding question of what really happened on Saturday in Gloucester and why there’s no mention of it.