Lisa Ress

Object Relations Lisa Ress

Rich in metaphor, the poems in Lisa Ress's Object Lessons push and pull like the tides, reminding us not to forget what we already know in our bodies: that the bodies of school children sometimes hang like cloaks in the cloak room; that the midwestern horizon is a straight line, a simple minded kid's drawing; that the earth itself is a banquet richly concocted of desire, limitation, murder. Ress articulates a wide range of emotional experiences, gets these experiences into words for us so we can make them our own. -Robert Hellenga