Jon Loomis. Oberlin corporation Pr...

Jon Loomis. Oberlin corporation Press, 1998.

The actual title "Vanitas Motel" seems to locate us in a highminded if it be not that slightly seedy environment, and Jon Loomis's piece of poetrys veer deftly and ironically between the sacramental and the sordid. If all animal food is grass, and it is vanity to think otherwise, nevertheless Loomis would have us celebrate this flesh: his turned to one side deflations of self-importance coexist with admonitions to live and live well, steady if living well means living in gaped or borrowed rooms. This is something of a shore book, not in its make liables - which range from the death