The Unreliable Narrator

<p>Narrators are never the exclusive property of prose fiction according to this new chapbook collection The Unreliable Narrator by C.M. Clark. In these poems the author explores how all speakers - even when embodied in written language - can sometimes be forthcoming and sometimes simply unreliable. There are always unresolved questions concerning whose voice a poem manifests. From the dramatic monologue form where a character speaks the poem to a confessional set of lines - or in the case of the prose-poem a block of text - any poem's persona is open to the reader's interpretation. Is any poem ever the poet speaking? Or are all poetic voices more properly unreliable narrators after all?</p>