High Erratic Ecology by Julia Rose Lewis Sylvia Plath to comprehend their role in

to comprehend their role in their own destruction: “If the unbearable were not weightless we might yet buckle under the grief

” These aren’t hopeless poems

tormented by loss - hears something like it

Impertinent owls

where the only defence was the threat of mutually assured destruction

High Erratic Ecology by Julia Rose Lewis Sylvia Plath to comprehend their role inImmediately apparent in the work of Julia Rose Lewis is a familiarity, an affability, one presupposing affinity between herself and her reader, but a proximity that is, and I think this is her great strength, her true power as a poet in fact, based upon a fundamental distance. Her poems are original, and in so being, they are deceptive. From the first note of her work, the poems are distinct. Their intricacy, their fundamental difficulty emerge only