Description
Book SynopsisThis collection incorporates Franz Kamin's two main previous books—
Ann Margret Loves You and Other Psychotopological Diversions (1980) and
Scribble Death (1986)—plus his posthumous writing originally collected as
Tales From The Theory of Angels. He links the scribbling of children, artists, and dreamers with the hopes and terrors of obsession and delirium. Through all of this one may almost detect a somber chuckling from the authorial domain.
Trade Review "Concretely, the measure of the poem is the measure of its rhythms, the qualitative aura of its language, its way of carrying its content. But Boughn also takes the measure of measure itself. To measure the measure is to accept the responsibility for the specific values of the poem’s concern—both the values in the poetics practiced in the work and the values expressed by its content. The poet stands at the site where originary value configures itself and colors its world."
--Charles Stein, from Introduction
