In e. smith sleigh's post structural poetry collection, These Things are a One Thing, she reflects on shared early millennial life experiences. Her thoughts are at once fresh, somber, affirming and funny. Sleigh dug out buried truths. The architecture of her language is original and dynamic. Her words are the reader's to possess. They entertain and stain the consciousness. Sleigh shows the reader how to listen for the enigmatic. She brought me along, down this path, into the present, into the world in general, and into her world as well. Every poem in the collection contains the words thing...

"e. smith sleigh's consistent use of nature as a point of entry into the larger picture of humanity's conjectures about life allows the reader to deeply identify with her words and her poetic images. Sleigh elegantly unifies her queries and accounts about life and love within the seasons of nature and the rhythm of the day and night. In doing so, the poems within her collections evoke times of the day and seasons, parched or drenched landscapes, and extraordinary emotions in the reader. Her poetry renders words into concentrated gems of private concepts and experiences which shine from each...

The free verse within e. smith sleigh's Eternal Nature series describes with candor, and wit, her visual encounters in the external and internal landscapes. Sleigh assigns her interpretations to objects and emotions in nature and life. The reader journeys with her on an adventure across the literal and psychic countryside. Through the dawns and dusks of the seasons of life and love, her poems move the reader toward endings that envelope the reader in surprise. ..".sleigh's consistent use of nature as a point of entry into the larger picture of humanity's conjectures about existance allows the...

Musings from the Fault Line after Dark is a poetry collection with the subtitle New Poetry New Style. e. smith sleigh decided to incorporate post structuralism into her fourth book of poetry not only as architecture but in her words and their context, as well. Post-Structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and works against seeing language as a stable, closed system. It is a shift from seeing the poem or novel as a closed entity. Post structural poetry is equipped with meanings that are the reader's task to decipher. A post-structural theorist might talk about the playfulness of language....

POST STRUCTURALISM AND RELATED QUOTES was written for those readers, including students and those outside the field, who are interested in Post-structuralism and its development. Included are many quotes from philosophers and theorists whose writings led up to Post-structuralism. Many pages of quotes from post-structuralists are provided, especially those of Jacques Derrida and Judith Kristeva. These quotes can assist with the writing of a paper . They will provide a broad understanding of the movement that influences so much of current thought today. The book offers several other resources...

genesis suspicion seduction sanguinity survival Verity is Relative is written in a Charles Bukowski style that incorporates both poetry and narrative prose. It is a half-fiction, half-memoir, new style novella that is a very sexy love story. sleigh invites you to guess the fiction. She is an advocate for Post structuralism, a philosophical approach to writing that allows for a great deal of freedom with style, tone, and structure. She also experiments with spacing and punctuation. It's up to the reader to add their perspective to the writing. for images, excerpts, a blog, illustrations and...