Starred Wire
Poems by Ange Mlinko

"The making of a Mlinko poem is nothing less than a new way of making a poem . . . rhymes and anagrams, puns and palindromes all churn beneath the charming, charged skin o' poem. It's a heady heady brew—O'Hara conversation, Ashbery sophistication, Koch hilarity, Schuyler shapeliness, Guest adventures, Notley grain, Mayer utopia, Padgett whimsy, Oulipo oofs . . . [Mlinko] revs, she's gone, the world map is redrawn."—Bob Holman, National Poetry Series judge

Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "one of the most exciting American poets under 40," Mlinko's Starred Wire reaches across continents of language where, as in Borges, dream logic dictates an interactive, delirious exploration of art and childhood, place and possibility.