Deborah Flanagan's prizewinning new chapbook is populated by a menagerie of historic personages -- celebrities and scientists, political and artistic luminaries, including George Washington, Houdini, Samuel Beckett, Peggy Guggenheim, Francis Bacon, Casanova, and Lord Byron's daughter, the mathematician Ada Lovelace. Juggling voices as she romps among her personae, the poet revisits and revises our complicated connections to the past in ways orthodox history can't possibly do: coding and decoding her stories while bursting out of the boxes into which we try to fit meaning.
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"These poems throw sparks. To read them is like dozing in front of an analog TV in the wee hours and waking to wonder whether you actually saw these images or imagined them. Saints, scientists, and escape artists pirouette out of Deborah Flanagan's smart, smoky pages as you turn them slowly, never wanting the dream to end." -- David Kirby --Advance Praise
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