Hum If You Can't Sing

"In poems that are often meditative, humorous, philosophical, speculative, Glen Brown's Hum If You Can't Sing revisits all sorts of narratives -mythic allegories, fairy tales, news stories that boggle the mind, family histories-all in the service of blurring the edges between what is strange and surreal and what is domestically habitual. Here are poems that show us Snow White as a harassed housewife, or Sleeping Beauty surrounded by modern day condos and a Prince who is existentially troubled by