Populace 
by Elizabeth Treadwell

"...Like snapshots taken of our secrets, her new book Populace reveals concise but incredibly detailed accounts of the experiences of daily life within our culture, open to anyone's interpretation. Treadwell records these prose poems and stories in a myriad of highly articulate voices...She writes from inside people, not about them or around them, looking backwards into their pasts and relating them to the present. The resulting slices of someone else's stories challenge us to realize parts of ourselves in
similiar situations..."

From How2:
reviewed by Yedda Morrison

"...Treadwell has the ability to create a non-hierarchical page teeming with pasts and presents without compromising her characteristic sharpness
of wit and depth ofinsight. Treadwell's writing creates an unusually democratic space within which all her materials are equally exploited, adored, tried on, subverted and ultimately employed toward a fresh,
reinvigorated feminist methodology that for all its volume is no less feisty, no less active, just better armed..."
 

From Articlemagazine.com
reviewed by Jen Hofer:

"... Treadwell's texts gracefully and resolutely refuse to uphold the false binaries between poetry and prose, narrative and fragmentation, truth and lie, autobiography and fiction, analysis and experience, stylish and frumpy. Whether remembered or imagined, these experiences, in this world, are plausible, difficult, worthy of the scrutiny Treadwell invites us to subject them to. In this book we walk in a beautiful, uncomfortable world, to the steadily syncopating rhythms of daily troubles, daily joys, the
  unusual usual that makes the complexity of a life lived, or of one written.

...Treadwell's widely spilling narratives, her "lies," her sentences and lines and fragments and accumulations, propose not only to engage us   through narrative, sensory, mental and emotional means what we might call "story," but also to map out (in the sense of exploration rather than conquest) certain compelling terrains-both within the world and within language--..."

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