Janet Holmes's second book of poems explores and interrogates the
quotidian life of the late twentieth century for what exists behind
its often seductive appearance. In these poems we see beneath
acceptable, sleek surfaces into the turbulence they often conceal,
as the splendid green tuxedo of the title may disguise a heart that
harbors racism, fear, and violence. Holmes exhorts us to look
beyond the face value of what presents itself, to resist literal
interpretations, and to plumb the many depths afforded by each
encounter with the world outside ourselves. In the second half of
The Green Tuxedo, Holmes draws on recently discovered diaries kept
by her journalist father nearly fifty years before her birth.
Sifting through evidence and memory, she entwines actual diary
entries (such as a seventy-seven-name list of "Wild Women I Have
Known") with speculation and invention to generate a portrait that
discovers him- re-invents him-as a young man. This sequence,
searching and elegiac, affords closure to a book whose questionings
suggest less a need for absolute answers than a declaration of the
need to explore. Holmes leads us through a world of appearances,
celebrating the necessary examination of what is concealed.
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