Lisa Underwood is a poet and writer who is drawn to visual imagery which she translates to the page in a spare artistic style that reverberates with echoes of other worlds, both real and imagined. Her poetry can be still and peaceful; uplifting and encouraging, a place of quiet reflection and love. Some of her themes are darker, reflective of a world that can be very hard to live in, for people of all ages and persuasions.
PRAISE:
Lisa Underwood’s book The Bone Picker is an intensely lyrical collection, drawn forward by an elegiac impulse that is as unsettling as it is moving. These are well-crafted poems with a distinct voice and an original vision. What delights this reader is how she draws on her influences—Gjertrud Schnackenberg and W.S. Merwin, most notably and directly—to produce poems that are clearly her own. She is a poet at the beginning of her career, yet her poems have force and authority. This is an impressive book.
–Morri Creech, Associate Professor and Writer-in-Residence, English Department, Queens University of Charlotte, 1900 Selwyn Avenue
Lisa Underwood‘s poems are touching and true to life. She uncovers her word paintings by slowly sharing with us the deep challenges of life. What we might think is going to be a sunny picture changes as we read, as she skillfully pulls away the veil and reveals the shadow beneath. She has given us a carefully crafted and very promising first book.
–Linda Beatrice Brown
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