David Wojahn's fourth work of poetr...

David Wojahn's fourth work of poetry takes its title from its opening piece, a meditation in succession the continuities of human behavior and the disjunctions of its manifestations athwart time. In 1788, French aristocrats and peasants are united in their inquiring surprise at the launching of a hot-air balloon - "above the palace of Versailles / the globe airostatique, tasseled and swollen,//a Faberge egg" - and its comic barnyard band the originals for our be in possession of space-suited crimps: "a puzzl drake, / a cock a goat dubbed Climb-into-Heaven"(3). Two-hundr years later at a Screaming