Poetry
by Kevin Sampsell, May 25, 2005 4:01 PM
"Fence Books is a new division of the great literary magazine Fence, and Miss America (along with Chelsea Minnis's Zirconia) launches this venture nicely. Wagner's poems are playful and whimsical and sharply stylish (especially the last series of 'Fraction Anthems'). Many of the poems are used to directly (or indirectly) address certain magazines (Time, Social Text, Art in America, Entertainment Weekly) in funny, slightly fun-loving ways. This is a book of concept poems of the best kind. When, in a series of 'White Man Poems,' Wagner writes, 'Must write poems to fill the huge demand for them,' you love the irony, but also you love Wagner for being so precocious."
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