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Fair Day in an Ancient Town
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“Elegant and raunchy, tender and brutal, musically, visually, and erotically ravishing, Greg Allendorf’s work is everything I want poetry to be, and I will read this volume again and again.”<br>—Aliki Barnstone, author of <i>Bright Body</i><br><br><i>It’s April now,</i> complains Allendorf’s speaker, <i>and still no desperate gift of unreturned yearning.</i><br><br>The poems of <i>Fair Day in An Ancient Town</i> subvert the glorious, Romantic pastoral into a voice easy to imagine as Walt Whitman’s darkly clever younger brother. The object of affection is fake-tanned and an idiot but still crashes a dozen lush masturbatory fantasies—or the speaker and his lover meet as shepherds only to eat M&Ms and abandon each other on bingo night. <i>O, the way his mouth confounded me / and folded on my mouth there in the fold,</i> slyly sings one of Allendorf’s shepherd’s songs, <i>O, the glory of his hairy arms, / the way they lit my eyes a little then.</i><br><br>Layering complex form, rhyme, and craft over lush horniness and hard wit, Allendorf effortlessly upends romantic poetry and exposes it to the twenty-first century. This is a collection to make the reader laugh out loud and think deep—and then find a way to be alone under the covers.<br><br>“With uncommon linguistic acuity [. . .] and a delightfully original voice, Greg Allendorf offers up poems that speak—and continue speaking—genuine longing, and the insistent ache of love. These are necessary poems for our young century.”<br>—Scott Cairns, author of <i>Idiot Psalms</i>
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