Sphinxlike is an exercise in stretching language, containing concrete poetry, Tibetan Buddhist thought, and the curated and out-of-body experience. It offers social critique and responds to capitalism and sexism with absurdity and humor.

Activating visual art, sound poetry, and performance art, its poems collide and scatter across the page in an attempt to expand through space.

Sphinxlike: A Collection of Poetry, Chime Lama, Finishing Line Press, Paperback, 77 pages, $22.99

Chime Lama is a Tibetan American writer, translator and multi-genre artist based in New York. She holds an MA in Divinity from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. She has served as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Brooklyn Review and the Poetry Editor of Yeshe: A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities. Her work has been anthologized in The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays and Longing to Awaken: Buddhist Devotion in Tibetan Poetry and Song (forthcoming). She lives with her husband and daughter in Rochester, NY where she has taught Creative Writing at the Rochester Institute of Technology and St. John Fisher University.