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As I read this I dog-eared my "favorites" until the book was pretty severely dog-eared. The section called "Everyday Lunacy" was by far my favorite. Take for example -
Sign
Fresh Today!
Wild fries!
Caught and squashed this morning!
Giant fries!
That was my favorite until I read Sleep ("Be your own boss!"), which was my favorite until I read Where Did You Grow Up?
Do you mean why did I grow up?
No – where did you grow up?
Do you mean how did I grow up?
No – where did you grow up?
Do you mean when?
No – just where.
Oh.
I don’t know why I connect so much with Mairead Byrne. Maybe it’s her diction, or her voice, or her ability to find something suspiciously normal to be wildly funny.
The prose poems in the section “Everything is unlikely” are similar to those in [b:Talk Poetry|1539614|Talk Poetry|Mairead Byrne|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1213058539s/1539614.jpg|1531790], which is one of my favorite contemporary poetry books.
To be sure not everything in the book is surefire, but I am very grateful anyway. I won’t link to specific poems from the book. Instead, here’s the link to the poet’s blog: http://maireadbyrne.blogspot.com/
Sign
Fresh Today!
Wild fries!
Caught and squashed this morning!
Giant fries!
That was my favorite until I read Sleep ("Be your own boss!"), which was my favorite until I read Where Did You Grow Up?
Do you mean why did I grow up?
No – where did you grow up?
Do you mean how did I grow up?
No – where did you grow up?
Do you mean when?
No – just where.
Oh.
I don’t know why I connect so much with Mairead Byrne. Maybe it’s her diction, or her voice, or her ability to find something suspiciously normal to be wildly funny.
The prose poems in the section “Everything is unlikely” are similar to those in [b:Talk Poetry|1539614|Talk Poetry|Mairead Byrne|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1213058539s/1539614.jpg|1531790], which is one of my favorite contemporary poetry books.
To be sure not everything in the book is surefire, but I am very grateful anyway. I won’t link to specific poems from the book. Instead, here’s the link to the poet’s blog: http://maireadbyrne.blogspot.com/
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