Here is the blurb I wrote for this marvelous book:
"An irreverent airy confection, a buffet of zany set pieces, sometimes almost lightheaded with tongue-in-cheek humor, but punctured here and there by the pastry fork of real pathos. A rococo music-box, tinkling with outlandish rhymes and wordplay, but durably crafted, with secret sliding doors opening on chasms of devastating honesty. Blad fizzes with enthusiasm for all nominally useless things that are still very much worth knowing for their own sake. This “travelogue” answers fully and excitingly the question of what narrative poetry can do in the 21st century."
"An irreverent airy confection, a buffet of zany set pieces, sometimes almost lightheaded with tongue-in-cheek humor, but punctured here and there by the pastry fork of real pathos. A rococo music-box, tinkling with outlandish rhymes and wordplay, but durably crafted, with secret sliding doors opening on chasms of devastating honesty. Blad fizzes with enthusiasm for all nominally useless things that are still very much worth knowing for their own sake. This “travelogue” answers fully and excitingly the question of what narrative poetry can do in the 21st century."
Sample poem:
https://www.literarymatters.org/14-3-...