The Milk of Inquiry

by Wayne Koestenbaum

More meditative, more provocative than his previous, much-praised work, The Milk of Inquiry is Koestenbaum's strongest collection to date. Its most ambitious gesture is a long poem, Metamorphoses (Masked Ball), a sequence of 115 bawdy, speedy sonnets, spoken by mythological figures ghosting as historical personages-among them, Orpheus speaking as Elvis, Proserpina speaking as Freud, Adonis speaking as Cleopatra, and Daphne speaking as Wilde. Short...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892552395
• ISBN13: 9780892552399
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Persea Books
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"