Cardinal baseball leaks out of open garage doors as a drizzling rain whets the backyard intellects of working class Urbania. Somewhere along the way, the little engine that could grew up to become an aggressively out of control train. A herniated playground ball spinning out of round spawns the conjectural repercussions of geologic physics: For every (skyscraper) there is an equal and opposite (earthquake). Topic after topic, the local rail traffic whistles its emphasis, punctuating the poetic insights in this sequential collection. Dancing On The Inside consists of 56 capsulated conversations, 274 train whistles, five snap-snaps for the beat crowd, a handful of black and white pictures, a little color, and at least one pointed epithet. For a “kinder, gentler”, war-crazed ‘civilization’, this is serious word play at its most cryptic fun
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SERIOUSLY HILARIOUS, or HILARIOUSLY SERIOUS,
By Dylan Gibbs, mgn. editor, news4u (Evansville, IN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dancing on the Inside (Paperback)
...as the book jacket says,"56 capsulated conversations, 274 train whistles, five snap-snaps for the beat crowd, a handful of black and white pictures, a little color, and at least one pointed epithet,"......That's a pretty good descriptor of the book. But it doesn't reveal the compelling wordplay, the biting sarcasm and dry humor, or the isolation that the poems in DANCING ON THE INSIDE, possess. "Joneses In The Burbs," for example, pokes fun at the American Dream: "Young aspiring adjectives/ big nouns and super verbs/ With legacies beyond/ just setting trash cans by the curb."... "The Backyard Tales" part of the title refers at least metaphorically the narrator's chosen setting. The inception of all but one of the entries, "One Time In The Front", is the author's own backyard. You feel as though it could be in anyone's backyard, or the neighborhood tavern; wherever hard issues are dealt with brutal honesty, and someone in your circle of friends compiled a synopsis, in verse, of the issue on tap...
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