The Hairpin Tax

By David Appelbaum

Subjects: Poetry
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Paperback : 9781930337510, 35 pages, August 2010

Table of contents

Origin of the work in art

Indicted

Rain thrown glass

Carats

Edifice

The cat’s pajamas

The fix

Feeling time

This other

Costume

Greet the world

Broke jaw

Your myths of blood

Camp song

Latest tragedy

Sporting report

Cynic

Embroidery

Manikin

Umbra

The hairpin tax

Hook up

Rocky road

Patience short supply

To a student

Under the volcano

Cup the rim

Coming revolution

Five o’clock

Truth

Description

The fragmentary poems are of flight, written in the full fury of movement from a known habitat to one full of strangeness. The uncanny is their constant envoy. They enter into things at an obtuse angle and forget their origin, beyond good sense, beyond good taste and use of time. ... Perhaps a nomadic ear is able to make very subtle discrimination in text. Such an ear is at work here.

—from the Afterword