The Animals All Are Gathering : University of Pittsburgh Press : 9780822961215 : 0822961210 : 10 Sep 2010 : "In this original and wonderfully energetic book, Bradley Paul moves from humor to mockery to play to anger to grief, and sometimes all at once. This poetry shifts, it slams, it hammers, it thinks; it corrodes our sorrow and foolishness; it captures our national haplessness, sad and firing and still."---Jean Valentine "This is a book of `Instructions,' a `How to' book, a `Guide' to the anarchic carnival of everyday life. It is a wicked book smelling of `scrapple' and the `puke of poetry.' And yet rising out of the bile is something else---call it a love for words and poetry---that can gleefully announce that `a monkey could write this poem.' Read this book and you will learn `how to stop your doppelganger from plagiarizing you,' which is exactly what you need to know to live in the twenty-first century."---John Yau