No Can Do

by JulieO'Callaghan (Author)

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  2000

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  This collection ranges in tone from the poignant to the caustic and in subject matter from the sublime to the hilarious. Games of executive whirlyball, betrayals by grandchildren with buzz-cut hair-dos, dilemmas about subscriptions to The Potato of the Month Club. The book's riotous middle is flanked by two contrasting sections, one of which brings a fresh subtlety to O'Callaghan's celebrated use of monologues as she ventriloquizes contemporary concerns through gently satiric and slyly erotic poems set in the court of Heian Japan. No Can Do ends with an affecting sequence of elegiac poems.