<DIV><p>"The book's a little crazy, packed with air quotes and brackets, jokes and condemnations, forms that explode across the page. Crazily enough, it's also packed with truth.”?NPR</p><p>"[Bibbins's] associative, oblique technique becomes the perfect table-turning weapon against the culture of mass distraction."?<I>Boston Review</I></p><p>The poems in Mark Bibbins's breakthrough third book are formally innovative and socially alert. Roving across the weird human landscape of modern politics, media-exacerbated absurdity, and questionable social conventions, this collection counters dread with wit, chaos with clarity, and reminds us that suffering is "small//compared to what?"</p><p><B>Mark Bibbins</B> teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University, and edits the poetry section of <I>The Awl.</I> He lives in New York City.</p><BR></DIV>