Animal Husbandry Today

Logic is strained, existence contracts and multiplies, connections amputate then graft in incongruous ways in Jamie Sharpe's poems, which, like a funhouse mirror, reflect our own absurd image. Nancy Reagan promotes crab salad (which is to say, her husband); the city of Paris spills into the countryside; a hammer seeks understanding through a vase. An assemblage of often disparate elements, Animal Husbandry Today attempts the ultimate reconciliation: that of the mind with the world.