The Irrationalist

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Buffams often deadpan tone is like a magical dustpan that sweeps up the strangest observations and ideas all worlds to themselves. Her Little CommentariesOn Piatas On Fountains and On Vanishing Acts (to name only a few)are absolute gems kin to Anne Carsons town poems and Yoko Onos Grapefruit. Buffams poems tug at new corners of the brain. Theyre marvelous. - Matthea Harvey Buffam begins with a world that ends a world that is always ending. This is not despair but a shrewd mind behind an honest eye that in wry observation creates out of small poems a book of knowledge Little Commentaries which show there is no wisdom unsharpened by wounding wit. That motion is an essential motion and these are essential poems. - Dan Beachy-Quick These poems try to achieve something almost impossible: not to betray the ironic today while celebrating the interiority of a serious meditation. And they succeed in doing it. What a treat! - Adam Zagajewski