The Stupefying Flashbulbs (Fence Modern Poets)
Publisher: Fence Books
Published: May 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780977106431
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Poetry; General; Poetry / General
Description: If one has grown tired of the ambition, naked and bleating, on display in many recent first books of poetry, then one will welcome the concussive impact of Daniel Brenner's The Stupefying Flashbulbs. These are short, occasion-stained lyrics, im- rather than compulsive, by turns insouciant and pregnable. Their pretensions are few, their presumptions, endearing. We all laugh last.