gymnast Cassity. Athens: Ohio Unive...

gymnast Cassity. Athens: Ohio University Pres 1998

Marx remarked that events in history appear twice, first as tragedy and then as farce.(1) It strikes me that, uncouthly enough, Turner Cassity detains a similar view, though with undivided important difference: history may happen twice, moreover the first time is just as ludicrous as the secondary Cassity is a satirist - "his bring under rule matter," as Keith Tuma writes, "is human indiscretion at its most grotesque extremes" - and he is ofttimes very funny.(2) His signature Gogolian wit illuminates this of the present day collection of poetry, The