Lively, stylish and "totally great" poetry from a poet of "fierce power." With graduate poet Colin Dingler. Clover's work has been praised by theorist Judith Butler for the way that it "brilliantly queries our historical moment in and as form" and it is with an intellectual clarity and linguistic sharpness that he undertakes these poetic investigations. Stylish, textured, intricate, irreverant-- Clover's work is studded with intensity, "social passion" and delight. This is what Wallace Stevens would have called the "never-resting mind" at work, observing, collating and challenging the trappings of "late and lost modernity" and demanding more from the reader, more from the world. The Totality for...

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