The Daily Glance

Nick Twemlow's Your Mouth Is Everywhere runs at full speed. Really, reading it reminds me of being in downtown Chicago trapped by a random stranger ranting at 500 words a minute about life, the universe, god, sex, and the city and trying to figure out if the person is insane or brilliant. Twemlow's speed is, of course, intentional, and his work feels surreal and contemporary.
O to be one
with the tenacious
among us. Awe replaces
guilt, guilt
replicates pumping gas
at the Kum & Co while
one's cat boils in the heat
in the backseat. Bed
down in this community
of rucksacks and antediluvian
daydreams, the porch
in need of a good sweep.
The poems in this chapbook switch topics quickly, bringing in sex and god quite a bit, but they also bring in various city images. In ways, what Twemlow is doing reminds me quite a bit of what Lina ramona Vitkauskas does in her work by using elements of the surreal to create interest and generate unusual connections.**

**This chapbook was published because Nick Demske won the Racquetball Chapbook Tournament.

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