Self-Styled No-Child

The Self-Styled No-Child, Cody Walker's second book of poems, offers an unlikely array of characters: Edward Lear, Mitt Romney, Amy Clampitt, and Andy Kaufman share the stage. Walker himself is ever-present, with his shrugs, his heartbreak, his "way-out rhymes": "I'd like to write some lines about the snow, / but -- I dunno, / the snow seems so / fleeting: / a flock of gulls, late for a meeting." Full of comic interruptions and grave forecasts, these poems surprise, delight, and terrify.

Self-Styled No-Child, a doua carte de poezii a lui Cody Walker, ofera o serie improbabila de personaje: Edward Lear, Mitt Romney, Amy Clampitt si Andy Kaufman impartasesc scena. Walker insusi este mereu prezent, cu ridicarea umerilor, cu sufletul, cu „rimele de iesire”: „As vrea sa scriu cateva randuri despre zapada, / dar - nu stiu, / zapada pare atat de / trecatoare: / o turma de pescarusi, tarziu la o intalnire. " Pline de intreruperi comice si prognoze grave, aceste poezii surprind, incanta si ingrozesc.