Sex at Noon Taxes: Poems

by Sally Van Doren

Book Overview

Playfully invading the traditional territories of poetry, Sally Van Doren throws into question form, subject matter, and the sound and meaning of words. The poems in Sex at Noon Taxes mix straightforward narrative, midwestern vernacular, and linguistic ambivalence, embedded in which is a struggle between the mind and the body. While one poem admonishes the reader to "Forget the phonics / of the focal/fecal. Phrase, / fashion, and effuse," in another...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807133116
• ISBN13: 9780807133118
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.7" x 8.5"