Mark Halliday. Selfwolf Chicago: Un...

Mark Halliday. Selfwolf Chicago: University of Chicago Pres 1999
The piece of poetrys in Mark Halliday's Selfwolf, are narrative, chiefly but straight on is where it isn't. In the best metrical compositions in this, his third volume of poetry, Halliday performs a tonal quickstep in conversational rhymes invoking everything from Haydn to Classic Coke As a reader, you know where you are, in what space of the house and where all the furniture sits. further the light shifts constantly, the floor's not horizontal and what's with those funhouse mirrors?
Halliday's work is not "emotion recalled in ...