Books

High Lonesome is a pasture on a West Texas ranch, a state of being, an affecting personal mythology. Poet Patricia Lee Lewis writes, 

“Think how brambles catch her petticoats, hold them ’til they tear, feed on blood….Say the old woman can find her way, can feel the thorns of walls.” 

“From her kneeling place between two great stones, she sends her voice.” 

These are poems of landscape and family, heart and perspective. 

“High Lonesome pulls you into the momentum of its sounds with urgency, shock, serenity and arrival. The language of Patricia Lee Lewis is devoted to noticing. Her poems digest the howling, look at what comforts, what invades to do harm, what remains.” – Anne Love Woodhull, poet, author of Night With Its Owl

A Kind of Yellow is a chapbook of 25 poems by Patricia Lee Lewis, MFA, Pushcart Prize nominee and founder of Patchwork Farm Writing Retreat. The poems tell a loosely consistent story, beginning with a little girl in Texas, and move through her pregnancy at 16, birth of her son, his mental illness and suicide. 

As award-winning poet Richard Jackson said of some of these poems, “…there is movement from the physical to the transcendent, from the self outward, and each poem gathers definitions as it moves along, like lines or images in a poem.” 

The book becomes in itself, a poem. 

A Kind of Yellow won first place in Writers Digest’s International Poetry Competition.