Poetry. "Trujillo Lusk's monstrous and witty verbal assualt on history and society uses as pivots the various stigmata of single-parenthood, poverty, and institutional negotiation, all the while chanelling every strand of modernism and modernity through a mind that refused the indignity of high-school graduation. Read it and sweep.

"The spines of these poems seem each to possess an extra, mutant vertebra that breaks loose from lyric's ghostly theremin to become an unruly daughter shooting darts from harp strings. Careful, you could lose an eye. You could be a bull's-eyed target, you schmuck.

"Oi vas wivetted."—Kevin Davies

Author City: VANCOUVER, BC CAN

Dorothy Trujillo Lusk is a Vancouver-based public historian and hostage negotiator. Her books include Oral Tragedy (Tsunami Editions, 1988), REDACTIVE (Talonbooks 1990, pulped 1995), Volume Delays (Sprang Texts, 1995), Sleek Vinyl Drill (Thuja, 2000), and OGRESS OBLIGE (Krupskaya, 2001).

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