The Wheel Project: New and Selected Poems: Part 2

By Liza Sisk

Liza Sisk has taken a deep and inquisitive look at her life and turned that journey into well-crafted poems that invite the reader to take the journey with her. It's a journey that involves love, loss, struggle, grief and, ultimately, redemption. Equally at ease with free verse and form, Liza Sisk allows us to look through the kaleidoscope of her life. Infused with lyric intensity, these poems become our stories too, as in the title poem, which discovers a form of prayer: "Amazed and comforted by the universe, / I now trust my wheel to turn..." But she doesn't stop there, admitting in another poem, "Yesterday I took all risks in stride. / I bet on hands that couldn't win..." So, come, hitch a ride on these poems and discover your own journey within one poet's carefully crafted work. - Pat Riviere-Seel, instructor at UNC/Asheville, Great Smokies Writing Program; author of The Serial Killer's Daughter, 2009 Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry. I neither know nor care whether the poems in "The Wheel Project" are good or bad. I am dead certain they are not indifferent. Liza Sisk seems to have flung herself at poetry the way she has flung herself at life. Or maybe it's the other way round and life and poetry came at her full throttle and she dealt with them on her own terms. Whatever the process, the result is a sharply original vision, a clear-eyed honesty, and a jagged and - yes - "quirky" music. Here is a reading experience as fresh as spring water - with crawfish in it. -- Fred Chappell, Former Poet Laureate of North Carolina and long-term UNC/Greensboro professor

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615826768
• ISBN13: 9780615826769
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Aldrich Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"