A review by mezekial
In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys by Campbell McGrath

3.0

Humorous, celebratory and packed with some of the most clever poetic wits I've ever seen. McGrath speaks along hallways in this collection, with his especially deft jabs and allusions to the poetic cannon but without any reservations on breaking the 4th wall to admit that the poem you are reading was written on the back of a coaster at 2am. A lot of times the specific angle flies right over my head--namely in a confusing, if not humorous account of tiger hunting with Robert Lowell--but I never felt like a lack of knowledge with cannon or historical poetic forms got in the way from enjoying (immensely, immensely) this collection.