I believe,
Every mortal,
Hath asked,
The major question,
To themself
At one point
In their life,
"What is the purpose of Life?"
A question that few define,
A struggle that few demand,
An answer that few understand.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.