What's Wrong : Kelsay Books : 9781639801947 : 1639801944 : 11 Oct 2022 : To read the poems in Gregg Friedberg's WHAT'S WRONG is to discover a voice unlike any other in its dizzying ability to address serious matters-love, desire, loss, belief and radical un-belief, to name a few-surprisingly, with joyous invention and indefatigable wit. The supreme ironist who is the speaker of these poems consoles his tormented soul handily with verbal wizardry. Grief, he says, is "a mediocrity" so he dresses it up and makes a party of it all. His is a dark vision, to be sure, but in that darkness there is no dearth of colorful illumination to pick up our spirits. -PegBoyers, executive editor of Salmagundi, author of The Album, To Forget Venice, Honey with Tobacco, and Hard Bread Rarely has formality of language achieved such intimacy-in these linked poems-the questing speaker, in reaching towards the other, begins to know himself. "Can I infallibly distinguish the artificial from the natural?" Inde