Books by John Emil Vincent

Excitement Tax uses a series of tonally various prose sonnets to trace the deeply uneasy relationship of a grown-up person and his imaginary friend, Walter Weaselbird. The pair crash through thickets of erudition in search of candy. Often they find candy.

Approaches John Ashbery's critically neglected poetry with an ear to his use of the supremely elastic pronoun ""you"" and an eye toward his construction of his books as books. This book argues the poet has been paying increasingly keen and affectionate attention to his readers.