HOMESICK

Roger Fanning is a junk magician. In Homesick,his second book, he repeatedly drains popular culture of its pop and fizz and transforms it into poems that are substantial, surprising, and evocative. In Lord of the Jungle, Larva-Nude, “Tarzan stands revealed as an adolescent self-conscious about his lack of body hair. In “”Besides Dracula’s Castle a Black Pool “”- a sly critique of capitalism’s excess – Nosferatu becomes “”a slender old bachelor with his hair slicked back. “”For all his humour and ingenuity