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The Corset 
“Lewis Warsh has written an interesting poetic investigation of a
strange custom of the Western world, mixing the surreal with the
sensual to fashion a series of poems that provides an acute act of
anthropological poiesis.”
Ed Sanders

“The Corset is not a poem so much as a new way of seeing the
world.  In these sly and laconic epigrams, Lewis Warsh manages
to explore the domain of sexuality with an almost perverse
equilibrium. The facts are allowed to speak for themselves, and
as the evidence mounts, we realize that we have been taken
beyond the facts into the darkness of the human imagination.
There is a stunning intelligence at work here, a fierce, deadpan
wit that disturbs and enlightens in equal measure.”
Paul Auster