Lacquer is a Thrilling Word by Barrie Cole
5 STARS ABOUT THE BOOK: The poems in Lacquer is a Thrilling Word explore unconventional forms—fortune cookie fortunes, drive-thru orders and to-do lists wrestling pleasure from the mundane and ridiculous while reveling in permission, attention and the sublimity of language. There are run-on sentence poems including one about assembling new varieties of mushrooms. There is a poem about angel watching (as opposed to birds) and another about collecting a bouquet of icicles. Poet Alison Luterman says, “To enter the pages of Lacquer is a Thrilling Word is to walk inside the wild and wonderful, kaleidoscopically shape-shifting mind of Barrie Cole, appreciating an odd truth bomb here, a moment of delight or humor there, and now and again a totally unexpected light ray of divine wisdom shooting through a dusty stained-glass window that was somehow exported from an ancient Gothic cathedral to a grocery store in downtown Chicago. There are too many delightful lines to quote in a blurb, but...
