US literary critic Eisenhauer presents four meditations on the work of Latin lyric poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54 BC) concerned with who he thought he was, the logodaedal hypercube, the
irony of how things are and non-resistance, and from libertinage to Zukofsky. Three more essays consider master strokes of vehicularlity, caricatures, and "The Hour at Which," ut pictura
cinema; and alpha fe/male, omega wo/man: with(out) the muses, what can be hoped for? Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
