Shorts Are Wrong

by Mike Topp

Mike Topp's irreducible art consists partly of recycling expandable parts of speech and revealing their unused genius. Other parts are fixed, like the sly orthography. Topp is the Andy Warhol and Ralph Nader of literature. Andrei Codrescu

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published July 27, 2007

Reviews

[Brent Legault · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are poems? They don't feel like poems. They feel more like whatever it is that Jack Handy or John Hodgman do. They're funny. Funny little nuggets of humorous, uh, gold. Like little comic gems, whose facets catch, er, laughs instead of light. My favorite? Thank you for asking. It's:

BASHO'S MILK DUD

Basho said to his disciple: "When you have a Milk Dud, I will give it to you. If you have no Milk Dud, I will take it away from you."

There are other favorites, too. They're on pages 11 through 128.

[Chelsea Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

yep