MAKE SHOW by Robin Lee

In his brilliant new collection MAKE SHOW Robin Lee showcases a vibrancy of language: “Every poem a / letting / go // Ascent into we / do not / know.” The collection gives us poems of journeying into and through darkness: “the certain shores / of house or life are not without their seas of / night. And that sea and shore together spin within / the larger night.” All the poems express a sense of mystery, and offer us a look into the universe of wonder.

~ Leah Maines, Publisher, Finishing Line Press

MAKE SHOW, Robin Lee’s third chapbook, can best be described as a nocturne: a work suggestive of the night. In this collection Lee serves up a tightly integrated series of mysterious, dreamlike, fractured-narrative poems that explore some of the inevitable dark elements of – as he puts it in The Attic – “every full-lived life.” It is a dream, a dream we share as these elements are examined, processed, and integrated. It is a pleasure to join the poet on this wondrous and engaging journey.