"Forget New York poetry. Forget Language poetry. Forget desires for a totalizing poetics. Fuhrman is a leader in the particular, in 'infra-surrealism.' She taboos nothing; no form impedes her complete wit. This full poetry is not only 'feminine, marvelous, and tough,' but subtle, searching, and wounded—sexual, social, and smart. Fuhrman celebrates new truth-telling, an art of the spectacular pageant."—David Shapiro

Fuhrman's fourth book of pop-surrealist lyrical poetry undermines contemporary constructs of beauty with an absurdist's eye for detail. She playfully manipulates the language of commodity culture to spark social awareness and inspire simultaneous laughter and mindful mortification.

From "For Newlyweds":

Your new life starts by unraveling the light.
Your new life starts you when you bash your

shadow with a kite. It really starts here:
on this airplane with all the empty seats,

flying over a city that used to have another name,
used to be full of taller and/or skinnier buildings,

used to be teeming with houseplants, bursting
with rollerblading messengers, brimming with lakes.

Joanna Fuhrman is the author of three previous poetry collections. Her poems have appeared in anthologies published by HarperCollins Publishers, Hanging Loose Press, NYU Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, and Soft Skull Press. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and in public schools and libraries through Poets House and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the playwright Robert Kerr.

Fuhrman charms, letting us in on the joke with a brazenly critical and warmly intelligent voice.