Nada Gordon: Folly

In a 21st American culture where simple dichotomies rule – good vs. evil, us vs. them, “as if it were a choice between OUD and BANJO” – Nada Gordon’s recent book of poetry, Folly (New York: Roof Books, 2007), is a self-conscious play and mix, an affected performance, a dandy language parade in sequins, wigs and false eyelashes where everyone is (good&evil) and they are us in the crumbling