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Title: exasperating rather than inventive
Review: Unlike Dean Young, who blurbs this book with enthusiasm, Catherine Wing's brand of manic wordplay and surreal humor doesn't, by and large, succeed. Although capable of satisfying cleverness and deep imginative leaping, Wing's poetry is ultimately frustrating. Regardless of where one falls on the spectrum of experimental versus traditional poetry, Wing's incoherence is amplified by the large dose of her that a book-length project offers. Read Wing in small doses; seek out her work in magazines. Skip the book.
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