That Tiny Insane VoluptuousnessThis collaboration between Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney is "Just more entertaining than poems are supposed to be. And I'm not using the word "entertaining" as some kind of sly putdown either. These poems have more human interaction going on in a couple of lines than many writers manage in a couple of books. The linguistic energy and, really, virtuosity, can be stunning. These are poems that know what people are like when they're around people." -Mark Wallace |
Contents
Tritina Five | 7 |
Delusions of Grandeur Are Some of My Favorites | 20 |
M4F | 33 |
The Moving Walkway Is Ending | 41 |
The Language of Business | 54 |
Lucid Villanelle | 67 |
XIV | 75 |
Quatorzain 1 | 81 |
Exposition of the Contents of a Cab | 87 |
Polite Society | 93 |
The Day After the Day After Tomorrow | 99 |
Common terms and phrases
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