Selected Poems Space Parsley described as Hypnogogic Word Playing

described as Hypnogogic Word Playing in Reporters' Notebooks which further expand our map of Bernadette Mayer's groundbreaking works of writing consciousness

sometimes puzzling

not a bardlike but a birdlike song […] something like a goldfinch tremolo

the sequel to her unforgettable CUNT UPS

Selected Poems Space Parsley described as Hypnogogic Word PlayingW. H. Auden Reflects the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the variousness of content in Auden's poetry. This volume also includes examples of Auden's mastery of light verse: the self descriptive sequence of haiku called 'Profiles', the barbed wartime quatrains of 'Leap Before You Look', or 'Funeral Blues' itself. Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems