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About the Book
“Liza Sisk, in her final poem of
Condominiums, Conch Shells and Consciousness, writes—Rarely
do we notice that the Fibonacci series...repeats in our stream of
consciousness. Every sequence of poems in this collection confirms
that possibility. Sisk’s subjects move in and out of the particular
and the universal: first this-worldly, about the challenges of the
common grass allergy, buying a condominium; then other-worldly, about
everyman traveling from earth to heaven, the three weavers deciding
our fate.
“Our lives revisit the same themes in an ostensibly coincidental
manner. But within that network of coincidence lies a pattern, an
order in the chaos of our quotidian lives. Most poets, on finding such
a pattern, will create an aesthetic arrangement of the recurring
themes. Liza Sisk has remained true to life in that she has not given
in to that old trope. There is, indeed, order in chaos, but Sisk
leaves careful readers with the adventure and excitement of
discovering that order on their own. A move both bright and brave!”
—Cathy Smith Bowers
Faculty, MFA Program
Queens University of Charlotte
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