The Most Charming Creatures: Poems

by Gary Barwin

With uncanny wit, inventive beauty, and numinous surprise, The Most Charming Creatures explores the contemporary and its language, considering our wonder, sorrow, bewilderment, anxiety, and tenderness. While these poems energize and connect and "turn the paren- / theses inside out so that / we mean everything," they are also alive to the alluring complicity of language and its duplicity and deceptions. "This is the way the world ends / Not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770416617
• ISBN13: 9781770416611
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"