Both bleak and bewildering, "Millennial Teeth," the visceral new
collection by poet Dan Albergotti, maps a contradictory journey
filled with longing and dread, cynicism and hope. A heady mix of
traditional forms and more experimental verse, Albergotti's volume
lures readers inexorably into the poet's obsessions with mystery,
doubt, ephemerality, and silence.The poetry in "Millennial Teeth"
will feel both refreshingly new and strangely familiar to
Albergotti's audience. Some poems pay direct tribute to such
literary luminaries as Wallace Stevens and Philip Larkin, while
others give nods to icons of pop culture, from Radiohead to Roman
Polanski. The narrator muses on the resurrection of Christina the
Astonishing, the works of Coleridge, and the mindless duties of
minor players in Shakespeare's "Hamlet."Yet these familiar faces
are not our friends; they are juxtaposed with the heartbreaking
apocalypses, both natural and man-made, that have plagued the world
since the first plane flew into the World Trade Center. A reluctant
witness to such events, the narrator of these poems attempts to
navigate his own personal crises, including the mental illness and
dementia of loved ones and the inability to connect with others,
from the darkness of a personal orbit far from the sun. As he
vehemently rejects the notions of religious succor, immortality,
and the passive acceptance of fate, he simultaneously yearns to be
proven wrong. Yet despite his trials, Albergotti's narrator
maintains a gallows humor and wry insight that balance his
despair.A riveting exploration of the all-too-human struggle
between faith and doubt, skepticism and obsession, "Millennial
Teeth" has both heart and bite in plenty.
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