Puppet Wardrobe. Free Verse Editions

In search of the dateless lively heat that Shakespeare sourced to Cupid, Daniel Tiffany mounts a Jarmanesque masque of punk pageantry and finds the infamous promiscuity of things in broad display. Here is delight in making up: these poems are trannies, the mind of each earning its costume through misdirection and imposture, enabling fictions that reconcile the cosmetic and the cosmic noise all in a fit. The poet may wear his wide-awake hat, but the shoes are cruel and the impersonation...
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In search of the dateless lively heat that Shakespeare sourced to Cupid, Daniel Tiffany mounts a Jarmanesque masque of punk pageantry and finds the infamous promiscuity of things in broad display. Here is delight in making up: these poems are trannies, the mind of each earning its costume through misdirection and imposture, enabling fictions that reconcile the cosmetic and the cosmic noise all in a fit. The poet may wear his wide-awake hat, but the shoes are cruel and the impersonation always off-target. As watchword, you have the poet s slang for the pink redoubt, the chummy vulgarity beneath prosody s underthings, so where the sense is lost, canonical Paradise was unfounded anyway: say hello to the New Flesh. The water never shows its face, nor language on the whole, so the poet s inclinations are perverse, seeking those magic perpendiculars that guide one through countless guises toward the maraschino middle, itself a muddle of Oz at its engine. Puppet Wardrobe is a pop-up book, surprise is in its element. It gives an incendiary look at the New Parnassus and goes all purple in the spying. But let him blush. It s just a thank you to Vertigo, whose party s not yet finished. Dream away, Gepetto."