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Tate, the master of the contemporary prose poem, cranks up the tension in his newest bunch of poems simply by letting his odd array of characters go back and forth with their skewed and hilarious conversations. These dialogue-heavy wonders are dense with hilarious accidents, bittersweet bickerings, melancholy lust, and disastrous miscommunications. We, the readers, are the lucky ones, eavesdropping from afar, in the warm weather of our collectively blown minds.