Description
Exhalation Halves Lambda
by Julia Rose Lewis
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-180-5
2017
Julia Rose Lewis is a poet and scientist who divides her time between Nantucket island and the United Kingdom. In 2010, she received her bachelors degree in Biology and Chemistry from Bryn Mawr College. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Kingston University in 2015.
From 2015-2016 she was poet-in-residence with the Archeology Department at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is a member of the Moors Poetry Collective and her poems have appeared in their anthologies. Her poems have appeared in 3AM Magazine, Enchanting Verses, The Missing Slate, Poetry Wales. She is co-organizer of the Cardiff Poetry Experiment reading series. Her chapbook, Zeroing Event (2016), was published by Zarf Poetry.
Andrea Stuart –
Indeed her current work, which explores the liminal boundaries between poetry and science has been a revelation to me. She has convinced me that is possible to write a love poem that works with only a bathtub full of water. And I have watched in awe as her poetry has developed in more formal and more sophisticated experiments.
Len Germinara –
At the heart of this collection, lines like “Both scientists and poets should be careful of gratuitous acts of anthropomorphisation and personification. It is something that I am playing with in my dissertation. I would like to see you. Maybe here?” were often precursor to a wry twist of the mouth from Julia when our friend and fellow Moors poet Neil would ask (what does this mean?) and I’m a lucky human to have shared our mutual love of poetry and Lambda to workshop with them both.
A gifted surrealist/scientist, Julia Lewis digs that you might as well and you will. This is poetry for ginger bread cake with chocolate frosting and a bourbon shot for a chaser. The answer to “why art?”
Len Germinara
Moors Poet