Description
Book SynopsisAn inventive new collection by the writer whom Colm Tóibín called “an assured and brilliant voice in Irish poetry.”
Trade Review"One could wear out a thesaurus of superlatives describing his stanzas with their insouciant rhythms and line breaks that appear like a cliff in a cartoon, leaving you momentarily suspended in space with a dizzying view." -- Michael Autrey - Booklist
"Displays an almost child-like wonder in the variety and slippage of language, alongside an adult sensibility of its boundless possibilities and dangers…Here are some of Laird's most successful and mature poems." -- The Times (London)
"A happy marriage of intellect and economy… Laird’s observations in these precision-tooled poems are deft and graceful." -- Michael Robbins - Chicago Tribune
"Masterful…a work of scholarship and a labor of love." -- Michael Goodwin - New York Post
"Streetwise, edgy and downright cool…. History, Greek myths, personal gossip, library carrel graffiti and the general ephemera of contemporary urban existence all find their way into [Flynn’s] elegant assemblages." -- Troly Jollimore - The Washington Post
