March 9, 2006

Laura Moriarty, Self Destruction (Post-Apollo, 2004). 116 pages. $14.

There's a lot to recommend in here: the different uses of forms, the subtle and not so subtle shifts in tone, overt accounts of Blakean/Spicerian reception:

Stupid moon
Unfortunate creature in it

Voice like a whistle
Source of rumors

Used me like a radio ("Stupid Moon," p. 24, ll. 1-5)

to the pleasant repetition of the infinitive verb in "Sing Song" (40):

To mess up one's hair or life
To squander to spend to throw off course

To tear apart farewell dismissal
In spite of to pour to empty out (ll. 1-4)
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Check out the interview with Laura Moriarty in The New Review 3.1 (October 2005): 95-107.