"Zeugma is a governing trope of this book of poetry, as well as a device. Zeugmas occur in specific places in the work; but also, the book considered as a whole is a kind of zeugma. Throughout, disparate things are yoked, often by sound similarities or wordplays, forcing the reader to shift abruptly from one meaning to another, and ultimately to a place which includes both senses, but doesn't (can't) ever settle on only one. This to me is one important means by which the book captures the fragmented, unstable and confusing contemporary scene. As is also characteristic of this book, a device by which the bizarre and disturbing reality of our moment is evoked gives pleasure"--
