Bright Stupid Confetti

Reading these poems, I have the constant feeling of having to catch up to their speaker. He strides ahead of me and beckons with his head. Comparisons are made, often to astronomy, climatology, genetics, computing, medicine, animal studies, but shipley has already leapt over the fences of the metaphors. These prose poems have the elegance of both scientific proofs and the goldberg variations. They offer no answers but the wry humor of their own making and unmaking. As laozi taught, and ship...