Poetry. "If you want politics with your poetry, this is the book for you—politics not as subject but as a process, highlighting 'language mechanism' rather than content. Sherry is a member in good standing of the Language Poets, who contend that language itself is complicitous in the schemings of capitalist culture. The conspiracy-mongering in these short prose poems has its hysterical moments ('The idea of a native meter of American speech is an effort to co-opt and freeze the way people speak'), and the language itself, for all the author's brash intentions to save it from 'the ruling classes,' seems as if a neutron bomb has visited—no signs of life, only structures. There is a loose narrative here—Graceland, a 'displaced underwriter of short-term paper,' and Carpaccio, a 'hazardous-waste disposer,' make random appearances in a post-nuclear holocaust landscape—yet one senses there is little but contempt for the reader in these half-hearted concessions to storytelling. Because this is perhaps the most intricate statement yet from the theoretical far left in American poetry, its inability to mount a persuasive argument may well signal that movement's long-rumored death"—Publishers Weekly.