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Playful and rich, formally inventive, funny and wry, Kevin McFadden's poems examine American identity through the latent possibilities of language. Transforming empty spans of interstate and inconspicuous small towns into landscapes fertile with wordplay and rampant with irony, McFadden makes letters themselves rearrange and conspire against commonplaces. Book jacket.

Kevin McFadden has published in a wide array of journals, including Denver Quarterly, Fence, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Southern Review. He is the associate program director for the Virginia Festival of the Book.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Is	p. 1
A Dance Theater of Mutts	p. 2
I.e.	p. 4
A Hut of Cretins	p. 5
Meditate Sea to Sea	p. 7
Drift	p. 9
It's a Cue, the Name	p. 12
Famed Cities	p. 13
Statue	p. 23
Another Untied Shoe	p. 24
It's Tarmac	p. 30
A Fete	p. 59
A French Statue	p. 61
Media	p. 63
Toes	p. 64
It Has an I	p. 65
Feet	p. 66
Diet Meats	p. 67
Court Seated	p. 69
Time	p. 70
No-Fat Ice	p. 80
At Rushmore	p. 81
The Faucet	p. 82
Die Satan!	p. 84
It's Smut	p. 85
Ears	p. 86
Hate	p. 87
A Tone Deficit	p. 88
To the African Muse	p. 89
Idea	p. 90
Test of Merit	p. 92
Data	p. 93
Astute Chinese Aside	p. 94
Authentic	p. 96
Meta-Forest	p. 97
Notes	p. 103
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