This long performance poem, winner of the Poetry Society of America's Di Castagnola Award, is a series of counterpointed dialogues between such pairs of characters as Nerval and his lobster, and King Kong and Fay Wray. Juxtaposing structures taken from Akhmatova's Poem Without a Heroand from Apollinaire's Song of the Unloved, it looks at social, linguistic, and mathematical chaos through extravagant performative frames.

Copyright 1988 Judith E. Johnson Performance Copyright 1989 Judith E. Johnson

Poem first published in Exile, Toronto.

Performance by arrangment with author.