A Bizarre Sentence

Trisha Georgiou confronts and deploys the conundrums of the English language in her excellent volume, A Bizarre Sentence. Not content with using anaphora (repeating an initial phrase over and over), she takes the words "bizarre sentence" and repeats them throughout the volume. Her tool is polysemy and it is also often her subject. The word "bizarre" bends in her volume. Sometimes it means simply strange, but often it connotes a feeling of helplessness. Often we are compelled to come to terms with many meanings of "sentence." Of course, it is a jail term or grammatical unit. But it can also be both. When non-native English speakers begin to learn the language, they may be challenged by the many meanings of the words. Georgiou may lament the bizarre sentences as well, but she also revels in their mystery.

~ Shea Doyle, poet & playwright