“The inventor of the graham cracker, a heliotropic vagina, Rosalie Butterbox and her mystery-lover all populate the stage of Bubble Opera—but the music in the lines, their sly rhymes, their vibrating syllables, and the poet’s refusal to indulge (in the face of great loss and disaster) in one moment of self-pity: that’s what steals the show. It’s a rare thing to find such good humor in poems as smart and hard-won as these. Brava, Janie Fink!”

“Janie Fink’s is a world closely observed, a world well lived in. Her poetry sparks with the details of the everyday, of the mundane, of the extraordinary sense of being alive.”

“Auden said somewhere the pleasure is the least unreliable measure of the quality of a book, and this book gave me enormous pleasure, from the broadly expansive poems to the explosive squibs.”

“These poems are a lovely reminder that it’s possible to be serious without being solemn!”

Janie Fink was born and raised in Roanoke, Virginia, and educated at the University of Virginia and Columbia University. Her poetry has appeared in Antaeus, Margie, Poetry East, and the Virginia Quarterly Review and her essays and reviews have appeared in The Journal and Verse. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter.


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