Agnes & Sally | Touch of the Whip | Avenue of Escape | Ted’s Favorite Skirt | Debtor’s Prison
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Inseparable

Avenue of Escape 
“Avenue of Escape strikes me as a book of curious solitude--perhaps
solitudes--the very territory where writing takes place. This is a
“progress of stories”--to adapt a famous phrase--from the child-writer
to the writer-of-the-age-you-are. That the poem is not the world--that
the poem is not the self--are clear foci, as if destiny were not
inhabited, except by aphorisms and dispersed tales. It is a rending
book, as if you had been torn out of it--words escape as from your
‘starling’s mouth.’”
Robin Blaser

“In turn elegiac, discursive, ironic or deadpan, Lewis Warsh’s poems
trip the real while revealing the incontrovertible logic of his lyric.
What’s love got to do with it? Everything, for words and lovers are
haunted by their absent objects in the same sublime way. Like a
modern cross between Montaigne and Jabes, Warsh anatomizes this
torment with the mastery and clarity of the possessed.”
Chris Tysh

“An anxious romantic enters night. An erotic muralist paints breasts
on a mirror. A student of architecture unveils a “new” New York in
different seasons. A retired mechanic sees civilization sputter. All of
these people are Lewis Warsh, incomparable scribe of late, late
New York.”
Andrei Codrescu