Musings from the Fault Line after Dark

Musings from the Fault Line after Darkis 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. sleigh entertains us by creating words. She reshapes and molds those words we know and engages us with challenging new ideas and concepts in the language as she presents it, one rollicking word after another tumbling, spinning, running before us.