The Jazz Age: An Entertainment by Aidan Semmens Ruth McIlroy Writers like Charles Simic and

Writers like Charles Simic and Matthew Sweeney seem like good reference points for this writing

Emery brings an unusually wide-ranging poetic vocabulary to the encounters in Modern Fog

The linguistic innovations of that novel

are equally at home in ancient cities or on today’s derelict coasts

The Jazz Age: An Entertainment by Aidan Semmens Ruth McIlroy Writers like Charles Simic andSemmens startling new collection is a sequence of surreal fantasies in which famous figures from (mostly) the past sometimes singly, sometimes in unlikely pairings make incongruous, anachronistic appearances in modern settings and situations, or in episodes from times not their own. Incongruous and laugh out loud funny, the poems delight the reader, yet much darker elements are at play. Salt Publishing