The poems in this collection are, in a sense, experiments in the employment of voice, wordplay and mythopoetic structures. The purpose, in so much as this collection can be said to have a purpose, is to celebrate the alienation and absurdity common to modern day life by depicting and dramatizing their connection with the culture we have inherited from classical tradition.
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