Oubliettes of Light

The poems in Lisa Ashley's debut collection are knock your-socks-off good. They are simultaneously lyrical and narrative. The stories are dramatic but are told delicately, with a crystalline economy of words. The poems hit home in the heart and their wisdom remains there. As Ashley says, "There is no such thing as a whole story" yet these poems tell a story so beautifully as to make the reader feel whole.

-Lillo Way, author of Lend Me Your Wings

There is a striking particularity to the poems ...