In the Bank of Beautiful Sins: Poems (Poets, Penguin)

Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Like its namesake-Robert Burton's seventeenth-century examination of human thought's and emotions-Wrigley's new collection means to examine our world through the lens show more or melancholia. From imagined memorials to the war dead to insomniac chickens; from Descartes' lost daughter to a dreaming tree; from King Kong to Rush Limbaugh; and from Anna Karenina to a man named Lucy Doolin (short for Lucifer), these are poems that elegize and celebrate that most beautiful, exasperating, joyous, miserable, and perfectly imperfect of all creatures-the human being. show less