Paradise for Everyone

The poems in Paradise for Everyone transact embrained feeling and transform via belief possibilities of reference. Here and here the person becomes language and language is an actorfully fleshed whose words and bodies name and rearrange the poem's conditions. The book's sections are organized to suggest movement not so much a narrative or progress as a cycling through of events of compulsion vision desire ruin multiplicity. Each poem has an ongoing urge to self-difference as it dreams travels and exchanges attributes with locales and objects. That urge generates the intermingling of self and word in this particular paradise language here on earth.Lisa Samuels teaches literature poetic theory and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In addition to poetry she has published essays and edited work on modernist and contemporary writers on intellectual property issues in the humanities and on practices of literary criticism.