"Java scripture shows poet Tony Fusco at his best, juggling ironic commentary on contemporary society with questions about youth, aging, and family connection. The poem that gives the book its name posits a creator making a world that runs on caffeine. Whether pondering the 60s culture or the irony of aging in The joy of sex generation, Fusco's trademark wit is on full display. His social conscience emerges ...Täielik kirjeldus
"Java scripture shows poet Tony Fusco at his best, juggling ironic commentary on contemporary society with questions about youth, aging, and family connection. The poem that gives the book its name posits a creator making a world that runs on caffeine. Whether pondering the 60s culture or the irony of aging in The joy of sex generation, Fusco's trademark wit is on full display. His social conscience emerges in such poems as Shoeless and Second amendment rights and Wrongs. But he is at his best when these themes unite, as in Those understanding bending language, as Falling secrets or Thaw, and when they crystallize in images of mystery and loss like 'captured twigs in holes in the cold plate/small boundaries around their waists ... as they strain for freedom/from the grip, loose but captured.'"--Publisher