false 2982528 1 Playfully invading the traditional territories of poetry, Sally Van Doren throws into question form, subject matter, and the sound and meaning of words. The poems in <I>Sex at Noon Taxes</I> mix straightforward narrative, midwestern vernacular, and linguistic ambivalence, embedded in which is a struggle between the mind and the body. While one poem admonishes the reader to "Forget the phonics / of the focal/fecal. Phrase, / fashion, and effuse," in another the speaker says, "I refine my sense of / pain when you touch me / with something blue." A preoccupation with the visual, artists, and artwork seeps through many of these imagistic minitexts. These poems look for release in descriptions of physical acts and in intricate manipulations of language. Sometimes they find it: "Along comes the sentence to / break up the monotony of possession." More often, though, the questions they pose resist answers: "What extravagant / commodity is sex?" and "Which el- / lipsis omits love?" Gender identification blurs as the poems probe theories of articulation and investigate the geographies of language and love. Through wordplay and word work, these poems travel a tightly crafted sphere of emotions and ideas. 3012933 3 2008 Sex at Noon Taxes: Poems (Walt Whitman Award) total:20|5:2|4:5|3:7|2:4|1:2| 20 61 36 6 1 1 false false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 14:31:49 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 06 03:02:30 -0800 2009 Crested Butte

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