Where Water Meets the Rock

In her fourth collection of poetry Where Water Meets the Rock Lindsey Martin-Bowen explores loss and recuperation in three sections. Erosion the books elegiac opening sequence laments a trinity of tragic Greek personas: Pasiphaë Psyche and Antigone. The middle section Frenzies a series of zany poems emulates the ensuing topsy-turvy world that follows deep loss. And finally On the Shore completes the triad concluding that by re-seeing and re-building life one can heal the psyche and the spirit. Once again through the use of her recurring sea-rock metaphor Martin-Bowen has employed a poetic technique that effectively maintains both a visual and auditory descriptive style which according to New Letters editor Robert Stewart is defined by her refreshing reliance on imagery and understatement.