Volume 6- Issue 5, May 2007
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Condominiums, Conch Shells and Consciousness
Entertaining, eclectic, extraordinary. A
literary event.
In
Condominiums, Conch Shells and
Consciousness, Liza Sisk deliberately orders her poems to simulate disorder.
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA – Tired of poetry collections where all the poems are on the same subject or, if there are sections, where each section is on the same subject, Sisk continually moves between poems on nature, love, metaphysics, travel… between narratives, satires, parodies, descriptive poems, personae poems, exposition… between free verse and poems with 4,5,6,7,8-line stanzas, sonnets, a ballad, a pantoum, a pattern poem, even a long syllabic poem… all with seeming ease.
In her concluding poem, “Condominiums and Consciousness”, Sisk suggests that stream of consciousness is an ordered fractal, leaving the reader to wonder whether the collection’s seeming disorder is misleading, whether to study the collection to find a pattern, or whether to wait for someone else to solve the riddle.
What an experiment! This book could change the path of poetry in the twenty-first century! You’ll want to stay abreast of the controversy.
About the Author
Liza Sisk has a B.A. in Mathematics, an M.A. in English from SUNY-Buffalo, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin. She is retired from a career in marketing communications and training with G.E. and other Fortune 100 companies. A finalist for the North Carolina Poetry Society’s 2005 Poet Laureate Award, she won honorable mention in their 2006 and 2007 poetry contests. Her work has appeared in many literary publications, including Puerto Del Sol, Carquinez Poetry Review and Hawaii Review. Also, she authored a chapbook: Four Months at Sea: A Holistic Experience and two books: On Being Alive and Structuring the Technical Report and Other Workplace Prose.