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A collection of avant-garde poems that experiment with syntax, punctuation, and visual layout to examine modern life, love, and popular culture. Organized in several sections, the pieces range from playful sound rhythms and neologisms to satirical sketches of city scenes, mixing tender lyricism with ironic social commentary. The foreword frames technique as an obsession with making; the poems juxtapose intimate moments, carnival energy, and consumerist imagery, often collapsing grammar for kinetic effect. Recurring motifs include motion, machinery, and bodily detail, and tonal shifts move between buoyant playfulness and quiet melancholy, inviting active reader engagement with form as meaning.
Non-standard spelling retained.
In the original on Page 46, the poem “this evangelist” is missing a line from the third stanza. That stanza in other editions is:
Also in the original on Page 55, the poem “life hurl my” was placed landscape on the page.