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With tragicomic bravado and psychological insight, this collection paints a turbulent portrait of a father and his family, creating a poetic sequence that has the scope of a novel and stretches the sense of what is possible in poetry. Each poem is presented as an improvisation on the theme of the father, forming a picture of a family held hostage by the mood swings and histrionics of this patriarch. Combining intense speed and surprise with moments of sudden slowness, this compilation has the flavor and intensity of a modern classic.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Toon Tellegen
was a diamond in the dirt
found among the library for sale books
Toon Tellegen
makes silk purses out of sows' ears
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he takes popular phrases and cliches
and turns them into something strange and new
like 'my mother was a train...
my father hallowed her name'
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