High Erratic Ecology by Julia Rose Lewis Sylvia Plath ’— Tamar Yoseloff‘Poignant hymns to

’— Tamar Yoseloff‘Poignant hymns to the transformative nature of life’s experiences

” These aren’t hopeless poems

where the only defence was the threat of mutually assured destruction

the possession of body and the definition of beauty

tormented by loss - hears something like it

High Erratic Ecology by Julia Rose Lewis Sylvia Plath ’— Tamar Yoseloff‘Poignant hymns toImmediately 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