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Book SynopsisPraise for Radio Tooth by Paul Jenkins:Jenkins navigates poetically perilous territory by remaining more or less in his own backyard, yet his revolutions on thetreadmill of sadness and consolation produce luminous, resonant lyrics. -Brian Henry, Harvard ReviewJenkins' resolutions and truces are indomiably surreal; these poems - on geography, genetics, faith, and loss - are jokes and non-jokes at once, dazzingly off, yet pure reportage. -Briefly Noted The New YorkerJenkins' poems are literally impulsive, they move in abrupt bursts of intelligent feeling, and they are aimed more at emotional fidelity than at achieving a rational, balanced perspective... These energetic poems halt and plunge forward in associative bytes, phrasing which is both ireegular and rhythmic... Radio Tooth is a collection of poems as fresh as mouthwash, spoken in a voice at once spontaneous, lyrical, and human. -Tony Hogland, Puerto del Sol
