The Daily Glance
Catherine Daly's Vauxhall works its way through a variety of themes, such as peace, golf, dance, candy, and birds. For example, with candy, several poems in a row have a candy theme, and then we switch to something completely different. All of the poems play with language, especially the sound of language. In the peace poems, we have sections titled, peace, peas, knees, lease, cease, and plea. The candy poems intersperse lists of candy into the poems, and the golf poems play around with golf language and golfers' actions, like where the ball lies and how people lie. The title of the book also seems to set the poems in the atmosphere of Vauxhall Gardens, so the variety of themes seems part of the landscape.
M&Ms,
licorice whips:
Note its behavior; it will always react to beating.
Do not beat caramels. Flavorings are volatile.
I am not a
masochist.
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