The Unreliable Narrator

Narrators are never the exclusive property of prose fiction, according to this new chapbook collection, The Unreliable Narrator, by C.M. Clark. In these poems, the author explores how all speakers - even when embodied in written language - can sometimes be forthcoming, and sometimes simply unreliable. There are always unresolved questions concerning whose voice a poem manifests. From the dramatic monologue form, where a character "speaks" the poem, to a confessional set of lines - or in the case of the prose-poem a block of text - any poem's persona is open to the reader's interpretation. Is any poem ever the poet speaking? Or are all poetic voices more properly unreliable narrators, after all?