Blindsight
Greg Hewett
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Summary
Greg Hewett writes fairly spare lyric poems, much like his students Ted Mathys and Amanda Nadelberg. His formal inventiveness is an occasion for wit, and a model around which to play with themes and ideasBlindsight is constructed around an invented form—Each line has a prime number of syllables, each poem a prime number of lines, each section a prime number of poems, and the collection itself is composed of a prime number of poems. Greg's poetry has consistently been received with acclaim, especially from the LGBT literary community, and his latest should excite similar enthusiasm