The Stranger Manual: Poems

From Publishers Weekly Rosemurgy's oddball second book is spoken in the voice of a quirky alter-ego named Miss Peach, who says about herself, There is a cartoon about everything/ I've ever done. Indeed her adventures are rife with Loony Tunes–like hyperbole and darkly comic violence. Miss Peach speaks with the self-deprecating vigor of an angsty teenager, but with the wisdom of someone who's lived a bit. We follow her through her days, going shopping (...Miss Peach has a spring catalog for a To Do list, and she moves her legs/ like a prodigy), looking after her health (one of Rosemurgy's many lengthy titles reads Miss Peach Seeks Treatment at the Rural Health Care Walk-in Clinic) and attending college, where, he kissed me as if to apologize. Her self-flagellating confessions—which are often wordy and prose-like—amusingly, and beautifully, bear the burden of off-center insight that is the result of experience and pain: ...Having a flowering core/ ...hurts in the way that being flower-like always hurts,// which is to say sexually, as if the whole self/ has exceeded the skin, which it hasn't, which means// we always seem to be opening but never do. (Jan.)

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