March In San Miguel by Owen Lewis

March In San Miguel is a most welcome debut from Owen Lewis, a poet who knows that to touch us lightly is to move us deeply. “Touching everything is allowed,” this thoughtful metaphysical poet of the ordinary writes in “The Lost Museum,” as he creates a vision of the imaginative life. In a chapbook that ranges from visions to the reality of family relationships, Lewis wisely states, “We all die with chapters unread.” But it is the chapters that are written in his lines that matter. Here is poetry that is warm to the touch.
–Molly Peacock

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

Reading work by Owen Lewis is like one of my favourite literary and television motifs: the experience of magically stepping into a painting, in which your reality and your senses become flooded with vivid, evocative, lush scenarios. You are transported into a new, sensory life-experience, born of both history and risk, relationship and intricate loss, hauntingly familiar and alien at the same time. I want a new poetry that changes me, so I welcome this debut collection of Owen Lewis and encourage all to enter the perceptions of his world-view.
–Nicholas Samaras

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]