The Comeback's Exoskeleton
Edition: First edition
Publisher: UpSet Press, Inc.
Published: April 1, 2008
Language: eng; spa; ita
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780976014218
Subjects: Literature & Fiction / Poetry
Description: Incorporating the density of Spanish surrealism and a sprawling Whitmanesque line, this amazing first book finds Rotando engaged in a poetic biathlon that draws equally from maximal and minimal traditions. There are tight, economical poems, free verse forms derived from the sonnet, poems leaping about the page, but my favorites are the wonderful prose poems tumbling over and under themselves toward gnomish statements that feel both didactic and self-parodying. (TIM PETERSON)