Poets’ Quarterly Reviews Tulips, Water, Ash

October 14, 2009 by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet Reviews

Emma Bolden reviews Tulips, Water, Ash for the online magazine’s inaugural issue.

Praise for Lisa’s Work

Throughout this brilliant collection, Stonestreet’s curiosities and honesties are bracing and true, as she chides and nurtures, studies and entreats, meditates, amuses, and sings, even if it’s just ‘one song when all the rest have fled from memory.”

—David Baker

Until reading Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet’s The Greenhouse … I didn’t know what a chapbook could do. I’d read plenty of moving chapbooks, sure. But to create, in only twelve poems, an experience as urgent, as real, and as necessary as The Greenhouse is astonishing.”

—Rain Taxi Review of Books

The voice that guides us through this unknown territory is dependable and a bit confessional, unique, and unstoppable.”

—The California Journal of Women Writers

…a poem of vertiginous self-consciousness: its extremity of feeling countervailed by the pressure of silence it makes felt. Like Gerard Manley Hopkins in ‘No worst, there is none’, this poet brings experience to a pitch in language at once pared back and wild with its play of repeating words and sounds.”

—Porter Prize judges’ statement

Lisa’s editorial eye goes to the core of a poem. She’s highly intuitive, sensitive to each poem’s potential for depth and power.”

—Athena Kashyap

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