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Decade Dance is a triumph, by turns as rank and guady as the Times Square it probes like a squad car, then suddenly rife with tenderness and the human cost of feeling. Michael Lassell's poems are worldly in the best way, defining the arc of a word of gay life in our own decade of mouting horror and oppr
Decade Dance is a triumph, by turns as rank and guady as the Times Square it probes like a squad car, then suddenly rife with tenderness and the human cost of feeling. Michael Lassell's poems are worldly in the best way, defining the arc of a word of gay life in our own decade of mouting horror and oppression. With an effortless feel for dark laughter he roams the city, a startling combination of boulevardier and hooker. From the sublime pathos of "How to Watch Your Brother Die" to the caustic and riotous "Piss Jesse", Lassell is a master of the necessary word. In an age of tepid and whining verse, his bawdy and bittersweet songs are like a plung in cold champagne (Paul Monette)
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