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Del Ray Cross's Lub Luffly is a book of short poems filled with puns, humor, and commentary on contemporary poetry. It relies on parataxis mixed with short narrative sections for its primary punch.
a concentrated and heightened
form of language. can't i just
site here and count butterflies?
my cellphone has no reception.
this leads to a greater
construction of narrative
character development cohe
sion.
In these lines, he plays with the ideas of non-narrative poetry being too difficult, and his reference to the cell phone seems to capture our attention-lacking society. Still, what is "this" referring to in these lines? The cellphone, butterflies, or concentrated language? Are they equal? Cross seems on the fence with this question, as he asks it over and over in this collection.

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