Opera Et Cetera

"This is fortified word-wine by a poet wild to imbibe. The book is structured around arbitrary occasions--letters of the alphabet provide the first twenty-six such occasions that the poet is delighted to rise to. Formally, Carson's traditional-looking long lines and perfect rhymes are countered with jazzy diction and syntax....It's astonishing how little it seems to matter what this poet writes about. The energy of language justifies what might have seemed unlikely origins."Ciaran Carson is the author of 'Opera Et Cetera' with ISBN 9780916390754 and ISBN 0916390756.