Owen Lewis’s Field Light is reviewed on the Medical Humanities Blog

Field Light by Owen Lewis is reviewed by Dr. Robert C. Abrams M.D.

“At the heart of Owen Lewis’ latest collection of poems, Field Light, is the story of a middle-aged man at a multi-focal impasse—emotional, temporal, marital, professional.  That man is Lewis himself, who finds himself unable to move beyond a crucial juncture in his life. The first image in the book fittingly evokes a mood of paralysis and  loneliness, featuring a long, slow train at a village crossing, a train unable to advance swiftly:

and take him where he
needs to go.  A lone driver stopped

in his auto.” 

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