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Article: To Tell the Lamp.(Book Review)
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- Harvard Review
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- June 1, 2005
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To Tell the Lamp by Lisa Lubasch, Avec Books, 2004, $14.00 paper, ISBN 1880713330.
It's hard to approach the poems in Lisa Lubasch's challenging third collection, To Tell the Lamp, without the lens of an ism--minimalism, surrealism, situationism. Lubasch's aesthetics are boldly on display, in part because she offers little else to hold onto. These are poems with no first person, hardly any images, hardly any things. Their characteristic mode of discourse is the philosophical proposition, their principle of organization parataxis, their pronoun "we," their part of speech the gerund. They describe a world of pattern and process, full of actions but with very few ...