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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In
Polari, John Barton has plugged language into all sorts of power sources, exploring the intricacies of structure and design through the politics of identity. Whether he's writing about sex or marmalade-making, he stares down desire, delving into needs 'laid bare for each seductive watcher and the one he watches.' These are opulent, daring poems." -- Barry Dempster
"In
Polari, Barton weaves an impressive soundscape, clothing old bones — like the villanelle, sonnet, glosa, and many others — with fresh clobber. With all the refined heft of a queer life lived long in language, this book pumps with the vitality of sex, thought, and rhyme. Sometimes traditional, sometimes blue, sometimes zhooshy and new, this is poetry plated for pleasure." -- Shane Rhodes
"John Barton's poetry swings with lyric intelligence and worldly brilliance, like a contemporary Auden.
Polari is absolutely beguiling." -- D.A. Powell
