Eve's Striptease (Pitt Poetry Series)
You have to admire a poet who can take an onion, the flu, houseguests, migraines, and a nurse's coat and turn them into poetry. Of course, Kasdorf is using the concrete to get at deeper things: there's amazement at life in these poems, and a hard-headed determination to make it work. "Flu," for instance, connects epidemics in 1928 and 1992, showing us life's quirks and coincidences and how we sail above them; "Onions" ends simply "I've peeled it./ Onion,/ I'm eating God's tears."Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.