The lollipop trollops and other poems

The Lollipop Trollops gathers the poems - written over several decades - of Alexander Theroux, one of the most brilliant novelists of our age. It is an uncompromising and explosive volume, work of astonishing force and variety. Although a genre by which he has been known thus far only to a few, this book but continues what, taken altogether, including his essays, plays, stories, and fables, he understands to be part of a single vision, the unfolding drama of a mind in. Action. "Ideas of a certain kind," writes the author, "thoughts of a certain nap, can properly be expressed in no other way, not merely one-take ideas, rather substances requiring a specific form, the way brandy suitably calls for a snifter, absinthe a drip glass, and champagne an eight-ounce 'tulip.'" A variety of voices and visions reflect the alternations of mood, degrees of power, and a broad array of themes, a major one of which remains Theroux's insistent. Exploration of the mystery at the heart of the creative process itself. The complex of styles, his versatility, incorporates a vast knowledge. Here are occasional poems that explore secret moments of passion as well as sonnets, simple unadorned lyrics, blank