Gary Percesepe's new collection of poetry, Gaslight Opera, is anchored by a long pantoum composed in honor of the poet Mark Strand, to whom the work is dedicated. "Waltz du Temps Perdu" is the dance of death, the wreck of the ship of state and the entrance into what Mark Strand called "The Grand Ballroom of the New Eternity." Percesepe deftly deploys prose poems and other traditional poetic forms to observe and comment on the current unreality...
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