definitely recommend. really beautiful, slight, humorous, sweet. i love his style. so many lines i clung to and re-read. ( )

Invigorating, often funny, often melancholy. The most zingy -- can I say, zingiest? - of contemporary poetry. I think his work may be love-it-or-hate-it. Here, at random, are the opening three lines from the poem "The Prelude" to help you decide: "Oh this Diet Coke is really good, / though come to think of it it tastes / like nothing plus the idea of chocolate". ( )