Volume 6- Issue 7, July 2007
Published by Llumina Press

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AWARD-WINNING ASHEVILLE POET, LIZA SISK, PUBLISHES NEW BOOK OF POEMS TITLED “CONDOMINIUMS, CONCH SHELLS AND CONSCIOUSNESS”

In This Collection, Sisk Deliberately Orders Her Poems to Simulate Disorder

            Award-winning Asheville poet Liza Sisk has just published her new book of poems titled “Condominiums, Conch Shells and Consciousness” with Llumina Press.  In this new collection, Sisk, who was a finalist for the North Carolina Poetry Society’s 2005 Poet Laureate Award, deliberately orders her poems to simulate disorder.

            Her poems cover an eclectic and extraordinary range of subject matter including nature, love, metaphysics, and travel. Her stylistic range is equally wide-ranging and she moves fluidly and with great skill between free verse, sonnets, ballads and other poetic forms.  This collection includes narratives, satires, parodies, and descriptive poems. 

            Sisk, who has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin, has worked in marketing communications with a variety of Fortune 100 companies. Her poems have appeared in many literary publications including “Puerto Del Sol,” “Carquinez Poetry Review,” and “Hawaii Review.”  She is also the author of two upcoming books: “The Elements of Structure: The Step Beyond Style” and “On Being Alive.”

            In her concluding poem, titled “Condominiums and Consciousness,” Sisk suggests that stream of consciousness is an ordered fractal.  This leaves readers to wonder whether the collection’s seeming disorder is misleading or whether it actually has a secret and mind-expanding pattern.

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Ms. Sisk is available for interviews. For further information, please call Carrol Mendelson at 1-866-229-9244 (toll-free) or via e-mail at: carrol@llumina.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Acclaimed author and poet Liza Sisk currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina.  She holds a B.A. in mathematics (Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. in English from SUNY-Buffalo, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin.

After teaching mathematics at SUNY-Buffalo and English at the University of Wisconsin and three other universities, Liza switched careers to Marketing Communications at General Electric, Westinghouse, and other Fortune 100 companies where she often taught communication skills to engineers, scientists, and their managers. At GE, she was also the managing editor of the glossy in-house magazine, Robot News. As a consultant, Sisk also worked with such clients as Merck, NASA, the American Chemical Society, and Carnegie Mellon University.

Since retiring, she has published a chapbook of poems, Four Months at Sea, in 2002, and her poetry has appeared in Puerto Del Sol, Carquinez Poetry Review, Hawaii Review, and other literary magazines. She was a finalist for the North Carolina Poetry Society’s 2005 Poet Laureate award and won honorable mention for their 2006 Poems in Traditional Forms Award.

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Condominiums, Conch Shells and Consciousness

Poetry

Publication: 2007

Author: Liza Sisk

ISBN: 9-781595-268013

Paperback                                            Pages: 72

Price: $9.95                                         Size: 5.5 x 8.5

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