Like a Pop artist, Tom Hunley creates with bright colors and sharp lines. In the face of disaster, he responds with the kind of insouciance praised by Whitman and practiced by a Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd. "Meet me at the Cafe Nihilism," Hunley writes, and in poem after poem we're there, where the abyss and comedy mix, the poems are both edgy and tender, and Mayakovsky's bad-boy persona gets an American makeover. Some bonuses: Hunley wears his considerable learning on his sleeve lightly; as a formalist, he's the best kind--unsolemn and jazzy. When he asks from his students "mango-like writing" that's "tropical, sun-kissed," he's describing his own aesthetic. As you read this book, enjoy the juice spilling down your chin.
-- Philip Dacey
Tom C. Hunley writes poetry with abundance:an abundance of humor, an abundance of compassion, and an abundance of grace. He excludes very little of the world in his poetry. The unusually wide range of subject matter, styles and tones in his second collection, Still, There's a Glimmer, are nonetheless bound by the unusually wide skill of Hunley as a poet.
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