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by Claire Bateman

Poetry. "I say Claire Bateman is weirder, deeper, weirdeeper, and in that way better than the poets some say are so damned good. Those poets just make me go 'Huh?' and 'Oh, sure, ' whereas Bateman makes me go 'Sheesh!' and 'Holy espresso!'"--Mark Halliday

Genres: Poetry

57 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2005

Reviews

[Hannah]

Grew on me. Lots of nice-ish, quirky-ish prose poems. Some of the best involve skewing perspective, as in Dessication's, "The way she'd remembered it, Lot's wife had been transformed into a pillow, not a pillar, of salt, which made perfect sense...."