Description

Poetry. The poems in THE DANCE OF NO HARD FEELINGS are informed by political blogs, electronic music, advertising slogans, and the devil himself (think Mick Jagger more than Milton). Sly elegies and erotic love poems unlatch themselves from time and place and question the concept of a queer sensibility. Like Frank O'Hara, Mark Bibbins mines irony and wry cynicism while celebrating empathy and beauty, advocating all the while that dancing-while-thinking is the best strategy for living. "Bibbins ... has the courage to stop, to pin down the always irrational present moment, and the reader is eager to follow, to inhale its scathing or enticing perfume.... A brilliant young poet"--John Ashbery.