Chandler Lewis

Winner of the 2009 Spire Chapbook Contest for Illuminated Aluminum

Illuminated Aluminum
(c)2010, Chandler Lewis




Chandler Lewis grew up in Western Pennsylvania, and went to school in Buffalo, New York. His poems have appeared in Shampoo, Onedit, Zafusy, whyarewenotinparadise?, Tool a Magazine, and Dance to Death. He is a public school English teacher.

Alice Notley once wrote, "To break and recombine language is nothing. To break & recombine reality, as dream always does do, might be something." The poems in Chandler Lewis’ Illuminated Aluminum do just that. The dreamlike world suddenly becomes tied to the real and the real world (wherever and whatever that is) arrives at the eye so slightly slant that one has to adjust one’s whole way of walking to move round in it. As a result every footfall becomes an adventure. And that really is something.