Who would guess that Godzilla, the Invisible Man, Elvis, Donald
Duck, Ted Williams, and the Three Stooges might have something to
say about the love and loss that shape the way we see the world?
And yet these are the pop-culture coordinates that chart the
emotional life brilliantly mapped out in Paul Guest's second book
of poems. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry, this
collection plumbs the depths of nature and culture (how, for
instance, "gar" in Old English means "spear," and an octopus can
lose a limb during mating) to give form to the darkness and the
light that make us human. In poetry whose tone is largely one of
lament tempered by a wry and intelligent humor, Paul Guest does
what a poet does best: he gives us the moments of his life
refashioned to reflect the larger arc and meaning of our own--of
life, that is, writ large.
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