Departures

Recovering in his hospital room after a burst appendix, hopped up on goof balls and contemplating his own mortality, Dennis Cooley, in his latest book of poetry,departures, constructs, deconstructs, and reconstructs his world with "invisible skeins that bind us all together, circumnavigating the globe," and mountains of words which reveal veins of hidden meaning.

And fart jokes, lots of fart jokes.

For there is "a childish outspokenness in illness; things are said, truths blurted out, which the cautious respectability of health conceals."--Virginia Woolf, "On Being Ill"